Components of the scheme

The components of the scheme are as under:

• Modernisation & creation of new milk processing facilities
• Manufacturing facilities for Value-Added Products
• Milk Chilling infrastructure
• Setting up electronic milk testing equipment
• Project Management and Learning Cattle Feed/ Feed supplement Plant
• Milk transportation system (refrigerated vans/insulated tankers, etc.)
• Marketing infrastructure (including e-market system, bulk vending system, parlour, deep freezer, cold storage, etc.)
• Commodity and Cattle feed godowns
• ICT (eg. Block chain technology, servers, IT solutions, near Real Time devices, etc.)
• R&D (lab & equipment, new technology, innovations, product development, etc)
• Renewable energy infrastructure/ plants, Trigen/ energy efficiency infrastructure. In all three cases, the energy generated or saved must be for the benefit of running cost of the existing plant/ BMC unit/ Milk collection unit, etc)
• Pet bottle/ packaging material manufacturing units for dairy purposes, etc.
• Training Centre (complete with civil and other necessary infrastructure)
• Any other activity related to the dairy sector targeted to contribute to the objectives of DIDF and decided by Government of India in consultation with the stakeholders