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Cabinet Approves Revised National Program for Dairy Development (NPDD)

Posted 20 Mar 2025

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The revised NPDD focuses on modernizing and expanding dairy infrastructure, ensuring the sector’s sustained growth and productivity, and increasing farmers’ income.

Revised National Program for Dairy Development (NPDD)

  • It is a Central Sector Scheme launched in 2014 (restructured in 2021).
  • Outlay: Revised NPDD has been enhanced with an additional Rs.1000 crore, bringing the total budget to Rs. 2790 crore for the period of 15th Finance Commission cycle (2021-22 to 2025-26).
  • Implementing Agency: Department of Animal Husbandry & Dairying (DAHD), Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry & Dairying.
  • Objectives
    • Establish 10,000 new Dairy Cooperative Societies (DCSs)
    • Strengthen milk procurement and processing in the North Eastern Region (NER), 
    • Formation of 2 Milk Producer Companies (MPCs) with dedicated grant support in addition to the ongoing projects of NPDD, 
    • Generate an additional 3.2 lakh direct and indirect employment opportunities, focusing on women, which constitute 70% of the dairy workforce.
  • The scheme consists of 2 key components:
    • Component A: Improving essential dairy infrastructure especially in remote and backward areas by supporting formation of DCSs and MPCs. E.g. milk chilling plants, milk testing laboratories, and certification systems.
    • Component B: Dairying through Cooperatives (DTC): Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA)-assisted programme for sustainable development of dairy cooperatives by improving production, processing, and marketing infrastructure in the 9 States.

Achievements of NPDD

  • Employment: Created over 30,000 direct and indirect jobs.
  • Milk Procurement Capacity: Increased by an additional 100.95 lakh liters per day.
  • Cutting-edge Technology: Over 51,777 village-level milk testing laboratories strengthened; a combined capacity of 123.33 lakh liters of milk coolers installed; advanced systems of adulteration detection in 232 dairy plants.
  • Tags :
  • National Program for Dairy Development (NPDD)
  • Dairy Sector in India
  • Dairy Cooperative Societies
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