Gandhinagar:

A meeting of the chairmen of all the 18 member diaries of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) was today held here in which it was decided to authorize the BJP high command for selection of the new Chairman and vice Chairman of GCMMF tomorrow.

After the meeting, senior BJP leader and Education Minister Bhupendrasinh Chudasama who along with other minister Kaushik Patel, remained present in the it, told newsmen that all the chairmen through a verbal resolution authorized the party to take a call on the selection of the new Chairman and Vice Chairman of the GCMMF.

‘They will be from one of the 18 diaries and the two names would be announced tomorrow,’ he said.

It is learnt that the name of Banas Diary Chairman and former health minister Shankar Chaudhary, Amul Diary (Kaira District Co-operative Milk Producers Union Ltd ) Chairman Ramsinh Parmar (who has now joined BJP leaving Congress) and incumbent Chairman Jethabhai Patel (of Sabar Diary) were as the top contenders for the Chairman post. Notably since 1973 the election of the Chairman and vice chairman of the cooperative body has always taken place with consensus.

GCMMF is India’s largest food product marketing organisation with annual turnover (2016-17) US$ 4.1 billion. Its daily milk procurement is approx 18 million lit per day from 18,549 village milk cooperative societies, 18 member unions covering 33 districts, and 3.6 million milk producer members. It is exclusive marketing organisation of ‘Amul’ and ‘Sagar’ branded products and also India’s largest exporter of Dairy Products.

Its member unions are –

1. Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Anand

2. Mehsana District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, Mehsana

3. Sabarkantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Himatnagar

4. Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Palanpur

5. Surat District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Surat

6. Baroda District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Vadodara

7. Panchmahal District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Godhra

8. Valsad District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Valsad

9. Bharuch District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Bharuch

10.Ahmedabad District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd.,Ahmedabad

11. Rajkot District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Rajkot

12. Gandhinagar District Cooperative Milk Producers’Union Ltd., Gandhinagar

13. Surendranagar District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Surendranagar

14. Amreli District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd., Amreli

15. Bhavnagar District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Ltd., Bhavnagar

16. Kutch District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Anjar

17. Junagadh District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Limited,Junagadh

18. Porbandar District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd, Porbandar

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