Students’ Training
Vidya Dairy was started in 1994 for a prime objective to impart hands-on-training with an innovative approach
to inculcate and develop professional & social skills in graduating B.Tech (Dairy Technology) students of SMC
College of Dairy Science.
Imparting Quality Hands-on-experience to B.Tech (Dairy Technology) students of SMC College of Dairy Science, Anand for the courses on Dairy Plant Operations and Management – I & II is the mission of Vidya Dairy. The students are placed into self sustainable environment that helps them to develop professionalism, confidence, and proficiency in all work areas. Initially, the students join the dairy as fresh raw material where they are briefed by the staff about
activities of the various departments and their role in Vidya Dairy. All resources such as training manuals, ISO documents, Equipment operation manuals, SOPs, HACCP documents, Forms and Formats, all modules of SAP system for Accounting, Marketing, Inventory Control, Production, Quality Assurance & Engineering are provided to them and they are trained to grasp various activities and shoulder responsibilities at work. The practical exposure in dairy essentially helps the students to develop work culture, professional confidence and social skills.
During the year 2017-18, 64 students of SMC College of Dairy Science completed their in-plant training at Vidya Dairy. The dairy has trained so far 1124 number of students of the college.
During the year, the students were benefited with short-term training programs, blessing lectures, given chance to accompany external auditor for ISO:9001:14001 & ISO: 22000 audit; students also took part in different seminars, events, and award function ceremony as detailed below.
• Involvement in various activities such as Cost Control, ISO, HACCP, TQM Apex Steering Committee, Statistical Quality Control, Kaizen, House Keeping, Market Surveys, Consumer awareness Programmes, Focus Group Discussions, etc were arranged.
• To make students aware about recent practical scenario, interactive sessions with different industry professionals, statutory authorities, etc.
• Retail Marketing exposure from the dairy’s own outlet ‘Vidya Shoppe’ to familiarize the students with the entire range of Amul Products, inventory management, customer dealing and cash handling
TQM Cascading Meetings for students were arranged every month.
• “Total Quality Management & 7 QC Tools” Programme by Shri Sham Chaudhry, TQM Consultant was conducted for the entire batch. The Programme was conducted in the evening hours after completion of students regular training.
• Training on “ISO, GMP and GHP” by Shri Divyesh Chauhan & “ISO & Allergen Awareness” by Shri Sunny Kharwa was conducted.
• All students had undergone one day training programme on “8 Habits of highly effective people” conducted by Shri G P Namdeo (ED, Baroda Productivity Council).
• For implementation of GST, 6 students accompanied commercial team of Vidya Dairy for Seminar on “Basics of GST” and taught them how to make application of knowledge in present legacy system.
• Technical/ Commercial question-answer sessions of all the students were arranged with all department heads for facing campus interview in the month of February, 2018.
• 8-10 students (two groups) attended Apex Steering Committee meeting every month & students got very good exposure (two times in a year) of entire dairy business process environment.
• Lecture on “Report Writing” by Dr. Jarita Mallik & Mr. Shreyas Patel was arranged on 24th April, 2017.