Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Stalin’s son is appointed as TN Deputy Chief Minister.
Antyodaya Diwas. NRLM-NULM Day. NRLM – Deendayal Antyodaya Yojana, or DAY-NRLM Aajeevika.
Konda Laxman Bapuji, 109. Their Jaladrushyam was the headquarters of the Telangana movement. Incidentally, that was the place where I went, when I visited Hyderabad for the first time as a teenager in the late 70s. And I continued to visit Bapuji, Jaladrushyam, and his other places of work. With my father, or otherwise. He remains an invisible inspiration.
We in the Dairy Board heard this story often – Nestle declared – the milk to milk powder process is too delicate for ‘natives’; Dr Kurien walked away in anger; Kurien with Dalaya could achieve a breakthrough of converting buffalo milk into milk powder; Milk market established in summer was served for taking care of the fluctuations of lean and flush seasons; AMUL grew; Sastry got influenced, triggering formation of Dairy Board to replicate AMUL; Operation Flood with milk powder and butter oil donations converted into money; India became self-sufficient, largest milk producer. Incomes and well-being of the dairy farmers – women and men – went up, and gave dignity, freedom through their 3-4 tier collectives/cooperatives, Anand Pattern Cooperatives. Dairy Board transcended milk – oilseeds, oils; fruits and vegetables; salt; electricity. It also transcended cooperatives. Dairy Board’s portfolio of institutions, easily into three digits, have also transcended to serve larger purposes. IRMA went beyond serving dairy cooperatives to all cooperatives, to rural, to development, and to ‘world’ – community collectives, civil society, businesses and governments. NTGCF/FES went beyond tree growers to watersheds, landscapes, and ecology. Kurien’s legacy includes these institutions, their alumni, and the principles/lessons. Mumbai first, market first. If democracy fails, go for more democracy. Problem paradigm may not give us the solution, can we be lateral? Listen to NextGen first. Quality at any cost. And of course, scale.
Amrt kaal would be taking us fully into a new paradigm, N-way. Regenerative, circular, self-sustaining, local, low food mile, and footprint closed loops. To non-linear systems. Lower specialist, higher generic, but systems, and collaborations. Self-learning and practice. Participatory. Localized, customized, collectivized, communitized, and hybridized.
Can we be participatory, truly? Can we decentralize, handover to locals, really? Can we trust them, seriously? Can we be more transparent, accountable at local, ground levels? Can digitization, digital forums, and platforms help? With hybrid mobilization support from movements, civil society, community collectives, and local leaders. Do we have any alternatives but these? Can we bring participatory governance to fighting hunger, poverty, vulnerabilities, reducing inequalities, deforestation, addressing climate emergencies, bettering healthcare, education, employment, local enterprises, collective action and collectives? To natural farming, living, and livelihoods? To N-way? Can we have the real bottom-up plans going upwards to become state and national plans, and budgets? Beyond the rhetoric. Poor-vulnerable-marginalized, PVM, taking the centre-stage. Can we seek proposals? Can we analyse and put them to vote? Can we allocate budgets? Can we invest into the future, for NextGen? Can we continue to be useful, relevant?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flow with new Galileos, Copernicus’. In N? dheeyoga for 7L.
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