<p>Mother Dairy, the largest milk supplier in NCR, on Thursday launched an eco-friendly van ‘Kamdhenu’ to cart loose milk in different parts of Delhi and adjoining regions.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The step is part of dairy major’s efforts to do away with 5.75 tonnes of plastic pollutants daily in and around the national capital.<br /><br />It has started one Kamdhenu van to Faridabad with a capacity to transport 800 litres of loose milk on pilot basis.<br /><br />“After seeing its success in a month’s time, more such vans will start moving in Delhi and NCR region,” a Mother Dairy spokesman said on Thursday.<br /><br />Homogenised toned milk<br /><br />Giving details of the van which was launched on World Environment Day on June 5, the spokesman said, “These are modern, eco-friendly vans which will carry homogenised toned milk in loose form and will be placed at different locations in Delhi-NCR covering even the remotest corners.”<br /><br />The vans, which will run on CNG, will bring safe, hygienic milk to the doorstep, he added.<br />“We sell about 11 lakh litres of token milk in Delhi alone and thus ensure more than 5.75 tonnes less consumption of plastic in Delhi everyday,” the spokesman said.<br /><br />Set up in 1974 under the Operation Flood Programme, a wholly owned company of the National Dairy Development Board, Mother Dairy markets and sells milk and milk products under the Mother Dairy brand.<br /><br />Mother Dairy markets over 30 lakh litres of milk daily in Delhi and NCR, of which one-third is loose and rest is in poly bags. It has 1,200 exclusive outlets and 15,000 other outlets in Delhi and NCR.<br /></p>
<p>Mother Dairy, the largest milk supplier in NCR, on Thursday launched an eco-friendly van ‘Kamdhenu’ to cart loose milk in different parts of Delhi and adjoining regions.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The step is part of dairy major’s efforts to do away with 5.75 tonnes of plastic pollutants daily in and around the national capital.<br /><br />It has started one Kamdhenu van to Faridabad with a capacity to transport 800 litres of loose milk on pilot basis.<br /><br />“After seeing its success in a month’s time, more such vans will start moving in Delhi and NCR region,” a Mother Dairy spokesman said on Thursday.<br /><br />Homogenised toned milk<br /><br />Giving details of the van which was launched on World Environment Day on June 5, the spokesman said, “These are modern, eco-friendly vans which will carry homogenised toned milk in loose form and will be placed at different locations in Delhi-NCR covering even the remotest corners.”<br /><br />The vans, which will run on CNG, will bring safe, hygienic milk to the doorstep, he added.<br />“We sell about 11 lakh litres of token milk in Delhi alone and thus ensure more than 5.75 tonnes less consumption of plastic in Delhi everyday,” the spokesman said.<br /><br />Set up in 1974 under the Operation Flood Programme, a wholly owned company of the National Dairy Development Board, Mother Dairy markets and sells milk and milk products under the Mother Dairy brand.<br /><br />Mother Dairy markets over 30 lakh litres of milk daily in Delhi and NCR, of which one-third is loose and rest is in poly bags. It has 1,200 exclusive outlets and 15,000 other outlets in Delhi and NCR.<br /></p>