Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications
Friday, Oct 10, 2003
Financial Daily from THE HINDU group of publications Friday, Oct 10, 2003 |
|
|
|
|
|
Agri-Biz & Commodities
-
People Amrita Patel gets fresh term as NDDB chief Our Bureau
New Delhi , Oct. 9 THE Government has re-nominated Dr Amrita Patel as the Chairman of the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) for a fresh five-year term. The decision is seen as a major blow to her erstwhile mentor and predecessor, Dr Verghese Kurien, who had opposed Dr Patel's re-appointment in view of NDDB's recent initiative to form joint venture marketing companies with State-level co-operative dairy federations, in which the latter would hold minority stake. "The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Bihari Vajpayee (who heads the Appointments Committee of the Cabinet) has cleared Dr Patel's re-nomination for a fresh five-year term. The necessary notification in this regard will be issued by the Agriculture Ministry soon," an official spokesperson said. Dr Patel's current term officially ends on November 27. The timing of the Government's announcement is significant, considering that it comes just ahead of an `all-important' meeting between Dr Kurien, who continues to be the Chairman of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF or Amul), and the Prime Minister scheduled for October 13. The meeting would have been Dr Kurien's last-ditch attempt to prevail upon the powers-that-be not to grant an extension to Dr Patel. The 82-year-old Dr Kurien, who headed NDDB for 33-odd years right from its inception as a registered society in 1965 and subsequent incorporation as a statutory corporation through an Act of Parliament in 1987, was personally instrumental in Dr Patel's appointment in November 1998. This time round though, he was bitterly opposed to her re-nomination, even as he backed the candidature of Mr B.M. Vyas, who is the Managing Director of Amul.
Article E-Mail :: Comment :: Syndication
|
Stories in this Section |
|
The Hindu Group: Home | About Us | Copyright | Archives | Contacts | Subscription Group Sites: The Hindu | Business Line | The Sportstar | Frontline | The Hindu eBooks | Home |
Copyright © 2003, The
Hindu Business Line. Republication or redissemination of the contents of
this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of
The Hindu Business Line
|