Constraints in The Management of The Model Dairy Plant: A Case Study

The study was conducted at the Model Dairy Plant (MDP), NDRI, Karnal (Haryana), purposively selected as a case, so as to study the various constraints perceived by the personnel employed at the plant, in the plant management. As it was a “Case-Study”, complete enumeration was done for selection of employees, workers and in-plant trainees as the respondents. An open-ended schedule was developed and the respondents were asked to list out the perceived constraints, followed by final screening and sorting depending upon their frequency of occurrence. The “Garret Ranking method (1981)” was followed to rank the constraints. The major constraints perceived by the permanent employees of the top and middle level of management were inadequate finance, under-utilization of the capacity of the dairy plant, inadequate infrastructural facilities, inadequate manpower availability, poor storage facilities, and lack of trained personnel. The constraints perceived by the permanent employees of the lower level management and the temporary workers at the MDP were lack of medical facilities, transportation facilities, rest room, refreshment, recreation, etc., and inadequate bonus, low salary/wages, long working hours, etc., respectively. The major constraints perceived by in-plant trainees were lack of full time instructor(s), inadequate arrangements for demonstration of operations, inadequate stipend, and lack of arrangement vis-à-vis visit to other successful/commercial dairy plants.