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	Verghese Kurien - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Verghese Kurien (born November 26, 1921) is called the father of the White Revolution in India.
		Kurien, set up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development, engineered the White Revolution in India, and made India the largest milk producer in the world.
		Kurien graduated with Physics from Loyola College, Madras in 1940 and then did B.E. (Mech) from the University of Madras.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Verghese_Kurien (477 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Business/Law-Kurien -> Court reverses Kurien's move on IRMA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurien, the octogenarian pioneer of a movement that increased milk production in the country and chairman of IRMA since its inception in 1979, sacked Reddy April 7 as the latter was seen owing allegiance to Amrita Patel, chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
		Both Kurien and Reddy filed an affidavit each in the court Tuesday, detailing the happenings of Friday, when a board meeting was held followed by the convocation of IRMA that is celebrating its silver jubilee this year.
		Kurien claimed that while the board of governors was divided equally when it came to ratify Reddy's dismissal, his (Kurien's) vote had sealed the matter, paving the way for Vaswani's appointment.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/04/20/20vas.shtml (349 words)

	ZoomInfo Web Summary: Verghese Kurien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Verghese Kurien was born on November 26, 1921 in Calicut (Kerala), India.
		Verghese Kurien in recognition of his outstanding and continuing contribution in improving the productivity and quality of life in the local communities of India, and, by the example of his work, in those of other Asia-Pacific countries as well.
		Verghese Kurien, chairman and founder, IRMA had terminated Reddy's appointment on 7 April and had appointed L K Vaswani as the acting director without consulting the institute's board of directors.
	www.zoominfo.com /directory/Kurien_Verghese_4898955.htm (1072 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Opinion (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurien demonstrated to the multinational companies that the cooperative principle, rather than the profit motive that drives companies, was what would benefit consumers and milk producers alike.
		The corporatization proposals are said by Kurien to be a betrayal of the cooperative principle.
		Kurien is right in objecting now to the entry of corporate cultures, even into milk marketing, for fear that it might enter into milk collection and processing.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1031020/asp/opinion/story_2467921.asp (1245 words)

	Milk powder is not just for babies
		Verghese Kurien, the man behind Operation Flood (OF), was recently back in the news when he received an award from an obscure foundation in Holland.
		The award to Verghese Kurien from the Dutch foundation, representing basically Euro-American interests, is in the main, an attempt to influence the European Parliament.
		The award to Verghese Kurien from the Dutch foundation, representing basically Euro-American interests, is in the main, an attempt to influence the European Parliament which is meeting next month to approve OF-III, and to persuade it to come to the aid of a beleaguered project.
	www.indianet.nl /a861106.html (732 words)

	Dr. Verghese Kurien : Indian Legends @ muraleedharan.com
		Verghese Kurien is called the "father of the white revolution" in India.
		Verghese Kurien, set up the Anand model of cooperative dairy development, engineered the White Revolution in India, and made India the largest milk producer in the world.
		Says Kurien, "I was a 'foreigner' a Keralite if I had tried to do something on my own, I wouldn't have been able to do it.
	muraleedharan.tripod.com /legends_kurien.html (414 words)

	Indo-Asian News Service -> India-Business/Law-Lead Kurien -> Court reverses Kurien's move on IRMA (LEAD) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurien, the octogenarian pioneer of the country's White Revolution and chairman of the IRMA since its inception in 1979, sacked Reddy April 7 as the latter was seen owing allegiance to Amrita Patel, the chairperson of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB).
		Patel, once a protégé of Kurien, is now seen as his archrival, and the high court case was part of their battle for control of the co-operative sector.
		Kurien had not only conducted the meeting without adequate quorum, but also kept three board members away from the proceedings, he alleged.
	www.eians.com /stories/2005/04/20/20j.shtml (380 words)

	Stirring up a storm in a milkshake
		Kurien is also against NDDB's taking a majority share -- effectively, management control -- in the joint venture; that to him is encroaching on KCMMF's freedom.
		It is not a quibble to Kurien because NDDB is Government; cooperatives should be independent of the governments.
		Kurien went and lobbied the Prime Minister so well that the government raised the duty to 40 per cent.
	www.rediff.com /money/2003/jun/03guest.htm (1088 words)

	The Telegraph - Calcutta : Weekend
		Dr Verghese Kurien, the man who single-handedly changed the face of the dairy movement in the country, officially retired about a quarter of a century ago.
		Ever since Kurien’s daughter Nirmala separated from her husband, Siddharth has been spending time with his grandparents.
		Born in 1921, the son of affluent Syrian Christians from Calicut, Kurien was raised in Chennai.
	www.telegraphindia.com /1051203/asp/weekend/story_5533977.asp (1099 words)

	Management & Marketing
		The chairman of the Institute of Rural Management-Anand (IRMA), Verghese Kurien, in a sudden move, today sacked the director of the institute, K Prathap Reddy, and sealed his office.
		Kurien himself is under fire with government officials and some members of the board questioning his chairmanship.
		Kurien has nominated a faculty member to take charge as an acting director, till a replacement is found.
	www.business-standard.com /strategist/storypage.php?chklogin=&autono=185672&lselect=8&leftnm=lmnu7&leftindx=7 (258 words)

	1963 Ramon Magsaysay Award for Community Leadership - Verghese Kurien
		VERGHESE KURIEN was born on November 26, 1921 in Calicut, a seaport now known as Kozhikode, in the State of Kerala in southwestern India.
		Under the Colombo Plan KURIEN was awarded a Senior Fellowship in October 1952 for advanced training in dairy plan design and dairy engineering in New Zealand and Australia.
		Already recognized as a leading figure in dairy development in his country, KURIEN was an official Indian delegate to the International Dairy congresses held in Rome in 1956 and Copenhagen in 1962.
	www.rmaf.org.ph /Awardees/Biography/BiographyKurienVer.htm (447 words)

	Industrial Economist - the business magazine from South - Cover Story (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Verghese Kurien sees red in this move and fears that the federations will lose their most prized asset, their brand equity and that it will also weaken the cooperative unions.
		Kurien and his team developed this technology to perfection and, in course of time, diversified into a range of milk products that added value to the cooperative.
		Kurien and Patel, in full control of NDDB for years, also ensured a lot of special attention to Gujarat and the Mother Dairy operations, notably in Delhi.
	www.indeconomist.com /151003_cover1.html (3091 words)

	1989
		Verghese Kurien successfully established a cooperative dairy program -known as "Operation Flood"-owned and operated by dairy farmers of his native India who produce, process and market milk for the urban areas of that country.
		Kurien began working with these farmers in 1949, after returning to India from Michigan State University, where he earned a Master of Science of Mechanical Engineering (with distinction).
		By 1998, at the time of Dr Kurien’s retirement as Chairman of the NDDB, Operation Flood involved more than ten million dairy producers in 81,000 cooperatives, supplying almost five million tons of milk annually to over 1000 cities and towns throughout that country.
	www.worldfoodprize.org /Laureates/Past/1989.htm (659 words)

	[ppiindia] Verghese Kurien (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Those close to Kurien claim that this is another fallout of the ongoing war with Patel.
		Ironically, in the 1950s, Kurien went to the Nestle headquarters in Switzerland to ask for technology knowhow to kickstart the dairy projects in India "But he is as British as they come, discussing wine and cheese with you.
		Kurien continues to put in four to five hours daily in his spartan office, based in the sylvan surroundings of the IRMA campus.
	www.mail-archive.com /ppiindia@yahoogroups.com/msg17837.html (1061 words)

	Google Search: Indian Broadcasting Corporation
		Kurien's action was later "ratified" by the IMRA board of governors.
		Three senior members — the former IPCL chairman Hasmukh Shah; the director of the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad, Bakul Dholakia; and the managing director of the IRMA's sister concern, National Dairy Development Board, Amrita Patel — were not allowed to attend a board meeting on April 14, on the eve of the annual convocation.
		They were disallowed permission on the ground that their tenure as members expired on February 15 and the so-called "fresh co-option" had no sanction of the chairman and therefore was not valid.
	ibcnews.blogspot.com /2005/06/court-upholds-kuriens-authority.html (379 words)

	Co-ops vs corporates: Kurien speaks out (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurien had called the news conference in the wake of a series of events in which his name was dragged— his sacking K Prathap Reddy as IRMA director, the subsequent snub by Gujarat High Court for his action, and cropping up of allegations of financial irregularities against him.
		Kurien said despite being a student of metallurgy and nuclear physics, he was successful in setting up a milk cooperative movement and felt that IRMA students could do wonders as trained experts in rural management.
		Kurien has been facing the ire of some board members of IRMA, who say that he has been ‘‘unconstitutionally’’ holding IRMA chairman’s post for 17 years and should quit.
	cities.expressindia.com /fullstory.php?newsid=148437 (527 words)

	Setback for Kurien, Irma chairmanship under threat
		Kurien's term as a chairman has already expired and for the time being he is not a legally appointed but a de-facto chairman.
		Kurien, who has been the chairman of Irma since its inception in 1979, does not want to face the board meeting thereby fuelling more controversies.
		Kurien had also threatened to step down but was later persuaded by other board members to carry on.
	www.ahmedabad.com /index/viewarticle/article/16117/section/14 (324 words)

	Women And Environment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Bad planning apart, the milk crisis in Delhi is also attributed to the ego clash between Kurien and Patel.
		Kurien spoke to Chaitali Chakravarty on the milk controversy.
		You are the father of white revolution, but today, the co-operative industry believes that you 're siding with one of the players, Amul, rather than looking after the interest of the Indian dairy sector.
	www.womenenvironment.org /nddb.asp (1331 words)

	outlookindia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		However, IRMA Chairman Verghese Kurien lashed out at his detractors charging them with trying to take control of the institution through "illegal means." Uproarious scenes were witnessed when three members --Dholakia, Hasmukh Shah (former chairman of Indian Petro Chemicals Limited) and Vijay Mahajan (industrialist) --were not (not) allowed inside the gates of the campus.
		Kurien, the pioneer of the milk revolution in the country, told reporters after the convocation that he was ready to leave the IRMA Chairmanship but could not be pressurised to do so and would do it at at his own time and judgement.
		Kurien, who had sacked former IRMA Director Pratap Reddy on April seven, said: "as you all might be aware, the past few weeks have seen unfolding of some unfortunate events perpetrated to sully the clean image of IRMA".
	www.outlookindia.com /pti_print.asp?id=292579 (400 words)

	The Hindu Business Line : Mother Dairy looking to piggyback State retail network — Kurien to take JV issue to ...
		Dr Verghese Kurien appears all set to stir the hornet's nest by educating the farmers on what he calls the undermining of their rights by such deals as the one Mother Dairy had struck with Kerala's Milma.
		Dr Kurien had other ideas when he chose Chennai later in the month as his next venue to criticise the NDDB subsidiary, Mother Dairy Food Ltd's (MDFL) outright wooing of State co-operative milk federations in a bid to access their massive retail reach.
		In the final analysis, Dr Kurien admits that the crown of the largest milk producing country in the world may have come for India with its share of thorns.
	www.thehindubusinessline.com /2003/02/08/stories/2003020800070800.htm (1309 words)

	Businessworld (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Patel tells us it is one of the few things the venerable Verghese Kurien left behind when he handed over the reins of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) to her.
		On 16 January, Kurien organised a debate on the same topic for the students of the Indian Institute of Rural Management-Anand (IRMA).
		Ironically, the PCL Act was Kurien's brain-child, but he couldn't push it through because of heavy opposition from certain corporates.
	www.businessworldindia.com /innerSections.aspx?SectionId=343&ArticleId=832 (1924 words)

	Has Verghese Kurien regained lost ground?- The Times of India (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Kurien says, "We have opposed joint ventures, because they are against the basics of the co-operative concept.
		While reiterating his earlier stand, Kurien adds, "The JVs have 51 per cent share of NDDB and 44 per cent of the state federation.
		Sources in the dairy industry believe that while Kurien has left no stone unturned to oppose his opponents' policy on JVs, the Milma crisis has proved to be an advantage.
	timesofindia.indiatimes.com /articleshow/msid-755761,prtpage-1.cms (532 words)

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		Verghese Kurien, another of the ‘nation builders’, began working with the farmers in 1949, after returning to India from Michigan State University, where he earned a Master of Science of Mechanical Engineering.
		By 1998, under Dr. Kurien's leadership, Operation Flood involved more than eight million dairy producers in 70,000 cooperatives, supplying almost three million tons of milk annually to over 800 cities and towns throughout that country.
		With Kurien’s patronage, Kanvinde had a lifetime involvement with this industry demonstrating how architects of vision need visionary clients to realise their ideas.
	www.angelfire.com /tx/deenu2/alofsin4.html (306 words)

	Dairying To Be Different
		Even when Verghese Kurien, Chairman of the Institute of Rural Management at Anand, is being careful, it is to challenge.
		In the early years after Independence, Kurien became involved with an experiment, ``at least at the beginning, it was more a way to kill time than the result of burning commitment,'' which was the Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers' Union.
		So, just as the success of Operation Flood makes Kurien proud, he is struck by anger and shame when he speaks of the millions of rural folk whose fate remains unconnected with those in power.
	www.expressindia.com /ie/daily/19990324/ile24164.html (531 words)

	Welcome to Amul - The Taste of India
		Verghese Kurien is the Chairman of India's National Dairy Development Board, the National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India and the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation.
		A dream in which regardless of origin, place of birth, occupation, or of language, each Indian has an equal opportunity to share in the nation's blessings, and to contribute to the nation's progress.
		The speeches are rich in their arguments, incisive in their views and contain anecdotes that illuminate, inspire and sometimes amuse.
	www.amul.com /book1.html (372 words)

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