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Foreword

Dairy sector is the veritable life-line of our country’s rural economy. In our
scenario, dairying is an economic symbiosis of crop and cattle population.
Over the period, dairying has also acquired the contours of a fully-fledged
industry in the country and has positively improved the life of those engaged
in this business, directly or indirectly, bringing significant socioeconomic
changes for small, marginal and landless farmers. It has a lot of potential to
improve rural incomes, nutrition and women empowerment, and hence is a
very critical area for investment.
A well-developed industry will enable millions of farmers to capitalise on the
emerging opportunities and make a significant impact on rural income which
help in achieving the Government of India’s “Vision 2022 of doubling the
farmer’s income”. Therefore, recognising the need for increasing milk
production both Central and State government initiated various critical and
ambitious schemes to improve the condition of Producer owned institutions
and to promote milk production in the country.
We must be cognizant that because of varying levels of development in dairy
sector across the country, there are different needs that must be responded to.
This requires better synergy among the governments at all the levels for the
implementation of public policies and schemes in order to improve the
transparency, quality and effectiveness.
The National Dairy Development Board will continue to expand and strengthen
its capacity building initiatives in the coming years. The new edition of the
Policy Compendium is one more step in that direction. This 2017 edition is an
updated version of the Compendium of the “Dairy Development and Animal
Husbandry Schemes of Government of India” 2016. It represents a
continuation of NDDB’s efforts to promote information sharing about
government schemes among all the stakeholders of dairy sector. Within this
Compendium, are scheme briefs that outlines the administrative approvals
and guidelines of various schemes of Government of India.
I hope that the state governments and state milk federations would find this
document beneficial and optimally utilize the schemes for achieving the
objectives of productivity enhancement, strengthening of backward integration
and upgrading the value chain to ensure maximum benefits for the milk
producers as well as high quality value added dairy products for the
consumers.