Modi seventh sitting PM who has visited Amul premises in Central Gujarat

Anand: Prime Minister Narendra Modi when visited and inaugurated the chocolate plant of Amul at Mogar in Anand, he became in all the seventh sitting Indian PM to have visited the cooperative Dairy giant’s premises here.

On the occasion he was all praise for Amul and also thanked it for fulfilling one of his old and cherished dream about use of camel milk.
Earlier the first PM Jawaharlal Nehru had inaugurated the first plant of Amul on October 31, 1955.
After that the then PM Lalbahadur Shashtri had on October 31, 1964 visited the plant here and inaugurated its first cattle feed plant.

Later on January 4, 1978, the then PM Morarji Desai has also visited the plant. On February 4, 1982 the then PM Indira Gandhi had also visited it. The then PM Rajiv Gandhi had visited it on March 22, 1985 and fagged off the first milk train from here.

Then PM H D Devegowda had visited it on October 31, 1996 and inaugurated one of its dairy plants.

Notably PM Modi today Inaugurated dedicated and laid foundations of plants and other things set up/to be set up at a cost of Rs 1100 crores. The chocolate plant of Amul set up with an investment of about Rs190 crore, at Mogar near here has a production capacity of 1,000 tonnes per month. He also performed online foundation stone-laying for Amul’s first dairy plant in West Bengal at Kolkata. The other projects include a take-home-ration plant of 600 tonnes per day and a ready-to-use therapeutic food plant with monthly capacity of 600 tonnes. He also inaugurated the incubation center cum center of excellence in food processing for promoting entrepreneurs and start up in the Agriculture university here.

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