3. Honor of Verghese
Year Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization
1999 Padma Vibhushan Government of India
1993
International Person of the Year
Award
World Dairy Expo
1989 World Food Prize World Food Prize, USA.
1986 Wateler Peace Prize Award
Carnegie Foundation, The
Netherlands.
1986 Krushi Ratna Award Government of India.
1966 Padma Bhushan Government of India.
1965 Padma Shri Government of India.
1963 Ramon Magsaysay Award
Ramon Magsaysay Award
Foundation.
4. • Amul milk Pvt. Ltd. was established in1946.
• The word Amul is derived from sanskrit
‘Amulya’ means invaluable.
• Today is jointly owned by 3 million milk
producers families in Gujrat.
• Today, India is one of the largest milk
producers in the world.
• Amul invented the milk powder; processed
from buffalo milk.
6. • The Govt. of India has honoured Amul with
the “Best of all categories Rajiv Gandhi
National Quality Award”.
• Largest cold chain network.
• Export to 37 countries worth Rs.150
crore(us$24million)
7. Amul shops are a part of the retailing chain
with more than 7 lakh outlets.
8. The advertising campaign is a series of topical
hoardings related to daily issues . It has the Guinness
world record for longest running ad campaign.
9. • GCMMF formed the NGO : Amul Relief Trust(ART), through
which Amul built schools devastated in the Gujrat earthquakes
of 2001 by making a donaution of 50million rupees.
Social Work
10. Kurien was the man behind ‘Operation Flood’ as the chief
architect who made India world’s largest producer of milk.
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11. He modernized
Anand model of
cooperative dairy
development and
engineered ‘White
Revolution’ in India.
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12. After the grand success of Amul, the model
was replicated in several states of India.
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13. He also introduced some of the best international
technology and practices in Amul.
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14. India salutes its white revolutionary: the
champion of farmers who led India to become
globe’s largest milk producer
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15. Verghese Kurien,
popularly called
the father of
‘White
Revolution’ in
India, died on
September 9,
2012, in Gujarat.
He was 90.
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