A tribute to Dr. Verghese Kurien

1. Dr.Verghese Kurien

2. Dr. Verghese Kurien
 Born:
26 November 1921 @ Calicut
Then Madras Province, British India.
 Alma mater:
University of Madras,
Michigan State University.
Family:
Wife- Molly
Daughter- Nirmala

3. His Contributions
 an Indian engineer and renowned social
entrepreneur, best known as the "Father of the
White Revolution“.
 Major Contribution- the world's largest dairy
development programwhich helped India
become the largest milk producing nation.
 with about 17 percent of global output in 2010–
11, from being a milk-deficient economy, which
in 30 years doubled the milk available per person,
and which made dairy farming India’s largest
self-sustainable rural employment programme.

4. Contd…
 He founded around 30 institutions of excellence.
 Notable are Anand Milk Union Limited (Amul),
Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation
(GCMMF), Institute of Rural Management,
Anand (IRMA).
 His achievements with the Amul dairy led Prime
Minister, Lal Bahadur Shashtri to appoint him
founder-chairman of the
National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in
1965, to replicate Amul's "Anand model"
nationwide.

5. Career Growth…
 After his master's degree, and was quickly deputed
to the Government of India's experimental
creamery, at Anand in Gujarat.
 Was pursuaded to stay back at Anand
by Tribhuvandas Patel, his mentor and friend who
had brought together Kheda's farmers as a
cooperative union to process and sell their milk, a
pioneering concept at the time.
 in 1965 Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri, created
theNational Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to
replicate the program nationwide citing Kurien's
"extraordinary and dynamic leadership" upon
naming him chairman.

6. Contd…
 Kurien was mentioned by the Ashoka
Foundation as one of the eminent present Day
Social Entrepreneurs.
 Played a key role in many other organizations,
ranging from chairing the Viksit Bharat
Foundation, a body set up by the President of
India, to chairman of the Board of Governors of
Institute of Rural Management, Anand (IRMA).
 Kurien's life story is chronicled in his memoir I
Too Had a Dream.

7. The Manthan…
 Film-maker Shyam Benegal, then an advertising
executive who used to write the copy for Amul's
brand, would be so inspired by Kurien while on tours
with him, that he conceived a movie with actors
enacting the story of Kurien's work,
called Manthan (the churning of the 'milk ocean').
 Not able to finance it, Benegal was helped by Kurien
who hit upon an idea of getting each of his half a
million farmers to contribute a token two rupees for
the making of the movie.
 It was critically acclaimed and went on to win
national awards in 1976-77.

8. The Amul Girl…