By Bizodisha Bureau, Bhubaneswar, May 22, 2019: The National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) is executing a milk processing dairy plant in Odisha with an outlay of Rs 242 crore on turnkey basis for the Odisha State Cooperative Milk Producers’ Federation (OMFED).

The project is likely to be operational by October 2020, said Abhijit Bhattacharjee, group head (public relation and communications) in Bhubaneswar.

Incidentally, NDDB’s wholly-owned subsidiary IDMC Ltd recently commissioned two ice cream plants each of 3,000 LPD (litres per day) at Sambalpur Dairy and Bhawani Patna Dairy to meet the growing demands for value added dairy products.

Currently, NDDB is executing a state-of-the-art five lakh LPD automated milk processing dairy plant on turnkey with an outlay of Rs 242 crore for processing of liquid milk & packing, UHT and milk powder plant, butter making and packing, fermented products like butter milk , lassi, flavoured milk preparation and packing, ghee making & packing, paneer making and packing at Cuttack.

In the wake of massive destruction wroght by Fani cyclone, NDDB will donate about 625,000 tetra-packs of 200 ml flavoured milk to about 125,000 children at anganwadis in Puri – one of the worst effected districts affected.

Besides, the board will also provide about 300 tonnes fodder for Chilika Buffaloes in Puri.