The Primary Milk Societies (PMS) functioning
at the village level join to form a Milk Union for carrying out such activities which are
conducive and essential for the socio-economic development of milk producers, by procuring
and processing of milk and marketing of milk products. The Board of Directors comprising 9
members elected out of the Chairmen of affiliated Primary Milk Societies run the
day-to-day administration through Chief Executive Officer.
These Unions either process milk at their own
level or pass the same to the milk plants of other milk unions for processing. They also
organize new Primary Milk Societies at the village level. A brief matrix of the Milk
Unions is as follows: