A major milestone of the event was the foundation stone laying for a new modern processing facility at the Saras Dairy Complex in Alwar, representing an initial capital investment of ₹200 crore. The plant will begin operations with a baseline liquid milk handling and processing throughput of 3 lakh (300,000) litres per day, with planned engineering capacity designed to scale to 5 lakh (500,000) litres per day. The facility will expand regional value-added manufacturing, modernize cold-chain logistics, and secure consistent daily procurement for thousands of milk producers affiliated with the Rajasthan Cooperative Dairy Federation (RCDF).

The Alwar plant expansion is part of an overarching policy mandate to ensure complete geographical coverage for primary cooperative societies. Shah highlighted that Rajasthan currently operates approximately 44,000 active cooperative societies, reaffirming the central government’s objective to eliminate institutional coverage gaps so that every single village across the state and the wider nation possesses an active, functioning Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS) or dedicated village-level dairy cooperative.

Integrating smallholder producers into formal cooperative networks addresses critical structural vulnerabilities in the unorganized dairy sector, such as arbitrary middleman pricing, seasonal flush price discounting, and limited access to institutional credit. By pairing automated milk collection centers with state-backed cooperative processing plants, regional milk unions can guarantee transparent fat-and-SNF pricing, provide subsidized veterinary care and balanced cattle feed, and return manufacturing margins directly to livestock keepers.