Click to play videoNew Delhi: ‘A gift for someone you love’ - This may have been the tagline for Amul Chocolates ad for years, but Gujarat government's recent gift to Vergehese Kurien is not what you give someone you love.
Three years after Kurien, the author of the milk cooperative revolution in India resigned from the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation, he founded, the government now wants to strip him of his basic perks that included a car, a driver, a security guard and a cook.
An outrageous decision for his many admirers.
“I am shocked, Dr Kurien is the pioneer of the milk movement, he should be treated well,” Dr Shyam Benegal.
This came after Gujarat's registrar of cooperatives sent a notice to GCMMF directing them to withdraw the facilities given to Kurien.
Kurien uses a 2003 model Honda Accord, has the same driver for the last 20 years and his last salary, drawn 28 years back as GCMMF MD, was Rs 5,000 a month.
Now the milk federation wants Narendra Modi to take a call and decide on Kurien's future.
But this is not the first time that Kurien's perks have been questioned. In 2006, the Mehsana Union of the 13-member GCMMF, appointed Kurien an honorary advisor and immediately wanted to reduce his perks.
For the 87 year old Kurien this is the prize for ushering in the country's milk revolution.
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