India at 73: Milestones that made us
Celebrating the successes in the ongoing process of building a nation—in education, livelihood and healthcare—through a photo essay
Curated By: Madhu Kapparath
Cooperative Dairy Movement
India’s White Revolution, based on Gujarat’s ‘Anand model’—where thousands of rural milk cooperatives covering 80,000 villages and over 10 million farmers came up—is one of India’s most celebrated success stories in development. It not only laid the foundation for self-sufficiency in milk production, but provides for about a third of Indian rural incomes and drives rural nutrition, employment and women’s empowerment.
