Soon, residents of fishing hamlets such as Nettukuppam in Tiruvallur will be supplied with more Aavin milk.
By mid-August, a Rs. 4.05-crore project to upgrade a packaging facility at Kakkalur into a dairy is expected to be completed.
Residents
of areas including Ennore, Minjur, TIruttani, Uthiramerur, Madurantakam
and Kancheepuram town will benefit from this facility.
Vanitha
J. Desappan of Nettukuppam is thrilled she will soon be able to buy
milk from a government depot. “I have been reading news reports on
adulteration in milk. Though I buy branded milk ar Rs. 40 a litre, I am
not sure how safe it is. Our people have access to a Tasmac shop but not
an Aavin outlet. A government milk depot would help homemakers like
me,” she said.
Currently, the Tamil Nadu Cooperative
Milk Producers Federation supplies just 13,000 litres of milk a day to
Tiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts, as opposed to the 11.35 lakh
litres a day supplied to Chennai.
Minister for dairy
development, V. Moorthy, who inspected the new plant on Tuesday, said
over 90 per cent of the work, including installation of a dairy for
pasteurisation of milk, tub-washing machine, cold storage room and a
packing plant, was completed.
The Kakkalur facility
is presently a filling centre that packs 7,000 litres for Chennai city.
After completion of work, the dairy will have the capacity to supply 1
lakh litres of processed milk a day.
Mr. Moorthy
urged officials to complete the work on a war footing. Aavin managing
director T. K. Ramachandran was also present during the inspection.
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