To ensure compliance with the state govt’s guidelines, Kolhapur district cooperative milk producers’ society aka Gokul Dairy will soon go to the polls to elect its new management board.
The board members are elected from the grass roots cooperative societies that collect milk from farmers. The grassroots cooperatives choose their own boards of directors and they in turn elect the Gokul Dairy board of directors.
The head of the Gokul Dairy is supposed to be very powerful. According to the Times of India report, the upcoming cooperative election will witness political fireworks. The dairy’s present controller Mahadev Mahadik and former minister of state for home Satej Patil are likely to lock horns with each other during the election, the report says.
The Dairy has an annual turnover of Rs. 1,100 crore. There are 19 directors altogether on the Dairy’s board. Despite its location in a city, the dairy covers areas further afield like Mumbai, Thane, Navi Mumbai and Pune.