Government to buy 10 kg milk/day from every cattle-rearer

The government built a substantial milk-procurement programme: Himachal Pradesh became the first state in India to fix a minimum support price for milk, raising cow-milk procurement from Rs 32 to Rs 45 in 2024, then Rs 51 in 2025 and Rs 61 in 2026 per litre, and buffalo milk from Rs 47 to Rs 71. It launched the Rs 500 crore Him Ganga Yojana and set up or upgraded processing plants including Dhagwar and Dattanagar, with Milkfed procuring roughly 2 lakh litres a day, plus transport subsidies. However, the specific promise, the government buying 10 kg of milk per day from every cattle-rearer, is not met: procurement runs through cooperatives at limited but growing capacity, not universally from every rearer, and the procurement rate remains below the separately guaranteed Rs 80 for cow milk and Rs 100 for buffalo milk per litre. Genuine, significant delivery on milk procurement, but short of the promised universal quantum, hence partial.