The Kaira District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited ( KDCMPUL), popularly known as Amul Dairy, will set up a memorial in the name of Dr Verghese Kurien.
Kurien, Father of India's White Revolution and the architect of Operation Flood, who passed away on Sunday, had started his stint with the co-operative sector from Amul Dairy which he had joined in 1949.
It was much later that he set up institutions like the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) putting small town Anand on global map.
Amul Dairy already houses a Dairy Museum at the main dairy plant premises in milk city Anand. But the new memorial will be dedicated to Kurien.
The dairy union is planning to construct a memorial where ashes of Kurien will be kept.
Kerala-born Kurien, a Syrian Christian by birth but a self-proclaimed atheist, was cremated in Anand as per his wish at 'Kailashdham', a Hindu crematorium, on Sunday evening after an all religious prayer at Amul Dairy's Sardar Patel Hall.
"We have already collected ashes of Dr Kurien after his cremation. The memorial that will come up inside our main dairy plant premises will be erected after consultation with his family members. We will put up the entire proposal during our board meeting scheduled at the end of this month," Amul Dairy's chairman Ramsinh Parmar told TOI on Monday.
The co-operative was already planning to give a new look and design for the Amul Dairy museum for which it has approached the National Institute of Design (NID).
The Amul Dairy museum which is a photo gallery, has a model of the garage (which was Kurien's first home in Anand) behind it apart from the house where Kurien had stayed for years before he shifted to Kurien Enclave - which remained home to the doyen of cooperatives till he breathed last.
As a bachelor, Christian and a non-vegetarian Kurien did not find a house to stay in Anand when he arrived in the dusty town where he was posted as a dairy engineer at the government creamery, Anand in May 1949. He had converted a garage at the creamery into his house.
The model of the garage was designed by late architect Suryakant Patel by bringing all the original material from the garage to build it.
The house where Kurien stayed as manager and later general manager of the Amul Dairy was converted into Dr Kurien's Award Gallery and has all the awards including Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. It was inaugurated on November 26, 2000 which was Kurien's 80th birthday by his wife Molly Kurien.
Source: TOI
Kurien, Father of India's White Revolution and the architect of Operation Flood, who passed away on Sunday, had started his stint with the co-operative sector from Amul Dairy which he had joined in 1949.
It was much later that he set up institutions like the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) and the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) putting small town Anand on global map.
Amul Dairy already houses a Dairy Museum at the main dairy plant premises in milk city Anand. But the new memorial will be dedicated to Kurien.
The dairy union is planning to construct a memorial where ashes of Kurien will be kept.
Kerala-born Kurien, a Syrian Christian by birth but a self-proclaimed atheist, was cremated in Anand as per his wish at 'Kailashdham', a Hindu crematorium, on Sunday evening after an all religious prayer at Amul Dairy's Sardar Patel Hall.
"We have already collected ashes of Dr Kurien after his cremation. The memorial that will come up inside our main dairy plant premises will be erected after consultation with his family members. We will put up the entire proposal during our board meeting scheduled at the end of this month," Amul Dairy's chairman Ramsinh Parmar told TOI on Monday.
The co-operative was already planning to give a new look and design for the Amul Dairy museum for which it has approached the National Institute of Design (NID).
The Amul Dairy museum which is a photo gallery, has a model of the garage (which was Kurien's first home in Anand) behind it apart from the house where Kurien had stayed for years before he shifted to Kurien Enclave - which remained home to the doyen of cooperatives till he breathed last.
As a bachelor, Christian and a non-vegetarian Kurien did not find a house to stay in Anand when he arrived in the dusty town where he was posted as a dairy engineer at the government creamery, Anand in May 1949. He had converted a garage at the creamery into his house.
The model of the garage was designed by late architect Suryakant Patel by bringing all the original material from the garage to build it.
The house where Kurien stayed as manager and later general manager of the Amul Dairy was converted into Dr Kurien's Award Gallery and has all the awards including Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan. It was inaugurated on November 26, 2000 which was Kurien's 80th birthday by his wife Molly Kurien.
Source: TOI