Shimla, June 20 -- Chief minister Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu while chairing a meeting of animal husbandry department directed to establish the dairy cooperative societies across the state, on Thursday.

To boost the dairy production these societies could play a crucial role in providing employment and self employment opportunities to the youth in the dairy sector. He said that currently in 910 panchayats, dairy cooperative societies are functional and the department should work hard to increase the number of functional societies.

Reviewing the work progress of Dagwar Milk Processing Plant in Kangra district, chief minister directed to constitute a committee to monitor the same and get it expedited. He said that the state government was setti...