Mr. Sangram Chaudhary presently Inchage of Managing Director Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers’ Union Ltd., Palanpur, Banas Dairy Asia’s Largest Dairy Cooperative with 8 million litre per day milk collection and about Rs.14,000 crores sales annually. He has been Executive Director and member of the governing body of National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) an organization credited with steering India’s cooperative dairy movement and making it the largest milk producing country in the world. He worked as Managing Director of Mother Dairy Fruit & Vegetable Pvt Ltd Delhi wholly owned subsidiary of National Dairy Development Board. He is a Post Graduate in Life Sciences (1984), and also holds a Post Graduate Diploma in Rural Management (PDGRM) from the Institute of Rural Management, Anand (1986).
His experience in co-operative dairy sector extends to over 36 years, with Organizational Development, Institution Building, Quality Management, and Project Management being his key interest areas. He is passionate about working with economically marginalized in their efforts to transform their lives and be self-reliant using dairying as a tool.
Mr. Sangram Chaudhary has the distinction of handling the responsibilities of Asia’s Largest Dairy Cooperative “Banaskantha District Cooperative Milk Producers Union Limited” as Managing Director & Chief Executive Officer from 1996-2010. During his tenure at Banaskantha Milk Union, he was instrumental in introduction of several new product variants, expansion of markets, milk procurement, and plant automation with resource optimization. Under his leadership, Banas Milk Union became a phenomenal growth story in co-operative dairying in India, achieving a turnover of Rs. 3500 crores, with milk producer membership of over 3,50,000 (35% of them women members) in 1500 village level dairy cooperative societies. The organization has now grown to 8 million litre per day milk procuring and about Rs.14,000 crores turnover, the Largest Dairy in Asia Pacific.
At NDDB, he has lead departments of Animal Breeding, Animal Nutrition, Dairy Engineering Services, Quality Assurance, Product and Process Development and Co-operative services. He played a key role in a focused national initiative named National Dairy Plan (NDP), which aims at enhancing the milk production in India by increasing the milch animal productivity and expanding the coverage of dairy co-operatives. Also, he has been on governing board of several key institutions facilitating the growth of dairying in India i.e. Mother Dairy, Indian Dairy Machinery Company Ltd, Indian Immunological Ltd, National Co-operative Dairy Federation of India, Vidya Dairy, NDDB Dairy Services and NDDB Foundation for Nutrition. He has been coordinating with FAO on Dairy Asia Networking for past few years as NDDB representative for India.
