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best known as the "Father of the White Revolution", for his 'billion-liter idea' (Operation Flood) the world's biggest agricultural development programme. The operation took India from being a milkdeficient nation, to the largest milk producer in the world, surpassing the United States of America in 1998, with about 17 percent of global output in 201011, which in 30 years doubled the milk available to every person, Dairy farming became Indias largest selfsustaining industry. He founded around 30 institutions of excellence (like AMUL, GCMMF, NDDB) which are owned, managed by farmers and run by professionals.
Madras Presidency, British India (now Kozhikode, Kerala) into a Syrian Christian family His father was a civil surgeon in Cochin, Kerala. He graduated in Physics from Loyola College, Madras in 1940 and then obtained his Bachelors in mechanical engineering from the College of Engineering, Guindy affiliated to University of Madras. After completing his degree, he joined the Tata Steel Technical Institute, Jamshedpur from where he graduated in 1946. He went to the United States on a Government of India scholarship to earn a Master of Science in Mechanical Engineering (Distinction) from Michigan State University in 1948.
daughter Nirmala Kurien and a grandson, Siddharth. He was an atheist. Verghese Kurien died on 9 September 2012 after a brief spell of illness in Nadiad, near Anand in Gujarat, India. He was 90. His wife Molly died on 14 December 2012 in Mumbai after a brief illness.
BOOKS
I Too Had A Dream,
An Unfinished Dream, The Man Who Made The Elephant Dance
Achievements, Awards
Year Name of Award or Honor Awarding Organization
1999
1993 1989
Padma Vibhushan
International Person of the Year Award
Government of India
World Dairy Expo
World Food Prize, USA. Carnegie Foundation, The Netherlands. Government of India. Government of India. Government of India.
Ramon Magsaysay Award Foundatio
1963