According to Union Minister Nitin Gadkari, Mother Dairy is going to invest Rs. 400 crores in Nagpur in a project for which the government will give 10 hectares of land.
The senior BJP leader and Nagpur Lok Sabha MP said dairy products from the proposed unit will be supplied across the country.
“The company is going to procure 30 lakh liters of milk daily from farmers. It will benefit farmers in Nagpur and other districts of Vidarbha,” he said.
Mother Dairy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and was commissioned in 1974 as part of Operation Flood. When asked about employment generation in the region, Gadkari said 68,000 people had gotten jobs in MIHAN, which is home to several firms, adding that employment had risen in the government as well as private sectors.