Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated five projects worth Rs 1,200 crore during the golden jubilee celebrations of Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) in Hyderabad.

Modi inaugurated five new dairy projects, including a modern cheese plant of Sabar Dairy, which has come up with an investment of Rs 600 crore, a long-life tetra pack milk plant of Amul Dairy at Anand and the expansion of its chocolate plant.

He also inaugurated the Bharuch based Dudhdhara dairy’s dairy processing plant in Navi Mumbai, Rajkot based Gopal dairy’s Rajkot Dairy Development Project, Kutch based Sarhad dairy’s automatic ice-cream making plant and Amul Dairy Anand’s automatic UHT plant and expansion of paneer chocolate plants.

More than 1.25 lakh dairy farmers, with representatives from around 18,600 villages in Gujarat, attended the programme at the Narendra Modi Stadium in the Motera area of Ahmedabad.