Question : National Dairy Plan

(a) the various steps taken by the Government towards achieving the twin objectives of the National Dairy Plan i.e. to make the organized milk market accessible to rural milk producers and enhance breeding, feeding and milk procurement during the last three years and the current year, State-wise:
(b) whether the implementation of the Plan has been limited to only the 14 major dairy States and not to other States with high potential such as the North- Eastern States; and
(c) if so, the details thereof and reasons therefor?

ANSWER
THE MINISTER FOR AGRICULTURE AND FARMERS WELFARE
(SHRI RADHA MOHAN SINGH)
(a) to (c) A statement is laid on the Table of the House









STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PART (a) TO (c) OF THE LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 84* PUT IN BY SHRI PREM DAS RAI REGARDING “NATIONAL DAIRY PLAN” DUE FOR ANSWER ON 24TH JULY ,2018
(a) NDP-I was approved during 2011-12 with a total investment outlay of about Rs. 2242 crore out of which Rs 2042 crore includes World Bank assistance of Rs. 1584 crore, GoI Share of Rs. 176 crore and End Implementing Agencies (EIAs) share of Rs. 282 crore. In addition, Rs 200 Cr has been contributed by National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) as technical and implementation support to the project. The emphasis of the scheme is to enhance productivity of milch animals by producing high quality semen from genetically improved bulls; generating awareness of the farmers on balanced nutrition and providing them with market access by creating Village Based Milk Procurement Systems (VBMPS). Under the scheme 530 sub-projects have been approved in 18 states for implementation by 169 State/district level Cooperatives/Producer Companies/Livestock Development Boards with a total grant of Rs. 1754.14 Crore till May 2018. This comprises 62 sub-projects for animal breeding, 167 sub-projects for animal nutrition and 231 sub-projects for VBMPS. The activity- wise approved subprojects are given in Annexure-I. The State-wise sub projects approved under NDP-I during the last three years and the current year for various activities under NDP-I is at Annexure-II.
Significant achievements under the plan are as under:
i) 378.98 million high quality semen doses produced.
ii) 26.94 lakh milch animals in 32578 numbers of villages have been covered under the nutrition balancing progamme.
iii) 2593 number of Bulk Milk Coolers and 21711 Automated Milk Collection Unit (AMCU) installed.
iv) 13.24 lakh additional farmers have been enrolled in 39956 villages under VBMPS.
(b) & (c) Initially, the Central Government approved the scheme for covering 14 major milk producing States comprising more than 90% of milk production and over 87% of the breedable cattle and buffalo population in the country. Later during 2015, the scheme was extended to 4 new states of Uttarakhand, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Telengana. Now, NDP-I is implemented in the 18 major milk producing States namely, Uttar Pradesh, Punjab, Haryana, Gujarat, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Bihar, West Bengal, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Odisha, Jharkhand, Chhattisgarh and Uttarakhand and Kerala. The benefits accruing out of assets/components created under NDP –I can be distributed in all states including North-Eastern states.



Although NDP I does not cover North-Eastern States, other Dairy Development schemes are implemented there as given below:

i) National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD)

During last four years in North-Eastern States, 9 projects with total outlay of Rs 70.97 Cr have been sanctioned.

ii) Dairy Entrepreneurship Development Scheme (DEDS)

An amount of Rs 66.19 Cr as back ended subsidy has been released to establish 8920 dairy units in North-Eastern states during last four years.

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