Prime Minister Narendra Modi is slated to lay the foundation of ‘Banas Kashi Sankul’, Amul’s Rs 475-crore plant in Karkhiyao on Varanasi’s border with Jaunpur on December 23 with a view to boost the dairy sector in the district as well as the east UP region, reports the TOI.
The prime minister will also launch NDDB’s unit of Parag dairy in Ramnagar, to restart the plant using bio-energy with an investment of Rs 19-crore.
The plant will collect 5 lakh litres of milk a day and produce 50 thousand litres of ice cream, 20 metric ton paneer, 75 thousand litres of butter milk and several other milk products