
Amit Shah launches ₹6,453 crore development package, including four newly operational dairy plants and an expanded processing complex in Alwar.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has announced a sweeping expansion of Rajasthan’s dairy and cooperative infrastructure, positioning processing modernization and livestock development at the center of a ₹6,453 crore state development package launched in Alwar. Addressing a regional delegation alongside Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma and Union Minister Bhupender Yadav, Shah stated that empowering smallholder livestock farmers (Annadata), rural youth, and women through automated cooperative processing networks is fundamental to realizing India’s Viksit Bharat 2047 economic vision.
A primary industrial component of the announcement is the commissioning and expansion of regional cooperative processing facilities under the state-backed Saras brand. Alongside performing the Bhoomi Pujan for the new 3 lakh (300,000) litre-per-day Alwar dairy plant—engineered to scale rapidly to 5 lakh (500,000) litres daily—Shah officially inaugurated four newly operational Saras Dairy processing plants representing a combined capital layout of ₹274 crore across Bhilwara, Jaipur, Pali, and Rajsamand. Together with expanded livestock insurance schemes and genetic breed improvement programs, the state is deploying over ₹500 crore in dedicated dairy infrastructure.
To ensure smallholders gain direct, unhindered access to institutional milk pools, the central and state governments are expanding cooperative banking and local credit access. The initiative launched four new District Central Cooperative Banks across the newly demarcated districts of Phalodi, Balotra, Didwana-Kuchaman, and Pratapgarh. These financial hubs will facilitate direct benefit transfers (DBT) for milk procurement payments directly into livestock rearers’ bank accounts, eliminating middleman discounting and providing essential liquidity for working capital and balanced cattle nutrition.
The processing expansion is integrated into a wider logistics and storage strategy designed to stabilize farmgate commodities and build out export capacity. Shah noted that across Rajasthan’s 44,000 active cooperative societies, 62 warehouses with a 100-metric-tonne capacity and 100 warehouses with a 500-metric-tonne capacity have already been completed, with an additional 50 large-scale storage facilities scheduled for construction during 2026–27. This modern storage network supports cold-chain and dry ingredient handling, establishing a commercial platform for the anticipated export of value-added Saras milk products to international markets.
The synchronized commissioning of multiple Saras plants and district credit unions demonstrates how India’s Ministry of Cooperation is executing its Sahkar se Samriddhi (Prosperity through Cooperation) doctrine at scale. By pairing high-capacity regional processing hubs with decentralized village cooperatives, automated chilling networks, and direct financial transfers, the government is insulating smallholders against market volatility. Modernizing the cooperative footprint across major states like Rajasthan ensures long-term procurement security while scaling high-quality dairy product output to meet burgeoning domestic and regional demand.
Source: ANI News
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