Bihar transfers ₹68.51 crore directly to 106,063 dairy farmers and launches digital control centre for Sudha milk

Bihar transfers ₹68.51 crore directly to 106,063 dairy farmers and launches an Integrated Command Centre to monitor Sudha milk supply chains.

State government completes direct benefit transfer covering 14.6 million litres of milk while launching an Integrated Command and Control Centre to monitor collection routes in real time.

The Government of Bihar has disbursed ₹68.51 crore via direct bank transfer to 106,063 dairy producer beneficiaries affiliated with 5,832 village milk-producer cooperative societies across the state. Executed under the institutional framework of the Bihar State Milk Co-operative Federation (COMFED)—commercially known for its flagship Sudha brand—the funds clear procurement payments for 14,666,061 litres of raw milk collected from rural smallholders.

Alongside the financial disbursement, state leadership inaugurated key digital governance infrastructure in Patna, headlined by the new Integrated Command and Control Centre (ICCC) and the Sudha Sampark dedicated call centre. The ICCC provides real-time telemetric tracking and digital logistics monitoring across primary village collection points, chilling facilities, and insulated tanker routes moving milk into COMFED’s regional processing plants. Operating in tandem, the Sudha Sampark call centre serves as a centralized help desk for farmers, offering veterinary guidance, feed procurement coordination, and rapid grievance redressal for dairy producers across Bihar’s milk sheds.

From a rural development and financial inclusion perspective, direct electronic account crediting marks a significant operational upgrade over legacy cash-disbursement systems. By routing milk payments straight to individual farmer accounts, COMFED eliminates intermediary deductions, stabilizes weekly cash flows for marginal and landless livestock keepers, and enhances procurement transparency. As eastern India emerges as a high-growth dairy corridor, establishing reliable digital payment mechanisms is critical to retaining smallholder producers within the organized cooperative fold.

From a dairy supply chain and quality assurance standpoint, the commissioning of the ICCC addresses historical bottlenecks in high-density rural collection. Real-time temperature and route monitoring prevents raw milk acidification along extended transit routes, particularly during peak summer and humid post-monsoon months. Furthermore, digitizing milk volume intake and automated fat/SNF (solids-not-fat) testing records enables COMFED to optimize factory intake planning, reduce operational shrinkage, and safeguard product shelf-life across its consumer retail lineup of liquid milk, ghee, paneer, and fermented dairy products.

Source: From our Partner Channel 03 Nov, 2026