Four years after becoming fully automatic and increasing its daily milk processing capacity to 2.5 lakh litres per day, which can be increased to 5 lakh litres, a new feature in the form of an automatic machine to prepare curd and lassi at a cost of Rs 123 crore would be set up at Verka Milk Plant, in Verka area here.
Narinder Singh Shergill, Chairman of Milkfed Punjab, who today inspected the project, announced the new feature to be added in the 61-year-old plant. The new automated curd and lassi unit will be installed by the National Dairy Development Board. Shergill said the project would be completed in about two years.
Till 1988, the Verka plant remained under the Punjab Dairy Development Cooperation, which was directly under the state government. However, it has now come under Milkfed (Milk Federation) like all other milk plants that have been set up by the government in the state.
