Kolkata: Union Home Minister Amit Shah will on Sunday lay the foundation stone of what is being billed as the world’s largest curd production plant under the Amul Bengal Dairy Project in West Bengal, an official statement said.
Before the programme, he is scheduled to hold a meeting with state officials to discuss the law and order situation in West Bengal.
The meeting, in the wake of the recently passed West Bengal Public Safety and Control of Anti-Social Activities Act, 2026, commonly called the ‘anti-goonda’ legislation that gives authorities sweeping powers to curb organised crime and public disorder, assumes added significance with Adhikari proclaiming strict action against political violence and crimes against women.
Shah is also scheduled to inaugurate the newly constructed ‘Word Museum’ on the National Library premises in Alipore area of Kolkata.
The ‘Bhumi Pujan’ event for Amul will conclude Shah’s three-day visit to the state, after his trip to Siliguri on Saturday was marked by his visit to a BSF outpost with a focus on border security, besides holding a series of administrative meetings at the north Bengal branch of the secretariat.
The dairy project, coming up at the Howrah Food Park with an investment of around Rs 700 crore, will have the capacity to process about 30 lakh litres of milk per day upon completion.
According to the statement, the plant will be capable of producing around 1,000 metric tonnes, or 10 lakh kg, of curd and other cultured dairy products daily.
The proposed facility will also package 10 lakh litres of milk every day, process two lakh litres of UHT milk, manufacture one lakh litres of ice cream, 20 metric tonnes of paneer, 10 metric tonnes each of ghee and sweets, and about 2.5 lakh packs of flavoured milk daily.
More than 1.25 lakh milk farmers, including over 30,000 women, are currently associated with Amul’s cooperative network in West Bengal, with around nine lakh litres of milk procured daily from the state, the statement said.
During the programme, Shah will also present registration certificates to representatives of more than 200 newly formed dairy cooperative societies and 11 newly registered multipurpose rural cooperative societies under the Centre’s White Revolution 2.0 initiative.
He will also launch the e-RCS portal for the computerisation of the office of the Registrar of Cooperative Societies in West Bengal. The portal is aimed at digitising registration and administrative processes relating to cooperative societies.
Shah will also lay the foundation stone of 14 storage warehouses with a combined capacity of 1,400 metric tonnes across 10 districts. The warehouses will be built at an estimated cost of Rs 5.98 crore.
In addition, he will inaugurate two storage warehouses of 100 metric tonnes each in South 24 Parganas and Cooch Behar, constructed at a total cost of Rs 73.61 lakh.
A memorandum of understanding will also be exchanged between Bharat Taxi and the West Bengal government’s Department of Information Technology and Electronics for the expansion of mobility services in the state, the statement added.
