Aavin has become one of the unavoidable brands in our daily life through its notability of manufacturing and distributing Milk and dairy products across the state and it has been bestowed with the trademark for its stability and its cohesion as it has been owned and functioning under the government of Tamil Nadu and Aavin is one of the top picks and priority of the consumers when it comes to buying the Milk and dairy products.

However, our sources reveal the ongoing developments which would blackmark the corridors of the trademark company towards causing danger for our daily milk and dairy products. Sources say that the distribution of the Aavin products has largely been on the verge of getting affected due to the prevailing rackets and riggings that allegedly been carried out by the high-ranking officials. The issues between the authorities and the union of the tanker trucks hold the base of what it has now become the pile of allegations and words of war.

The sources say that Aavin procures milk from across the state by signing a two-years-once contract with the tanker truck transports. These trucks would be collecting the milk from the farmers and it would deliver to Aavin dairy plants in Madhavaram, Ambattur, Sholinganallur. It is the routine process and Aavin would renew the contract with the transports every two years and lastly, Aavin has made the contracts in 2016 and despite the contract had expired in 2018, Aavin had failed to make any new contract in the last four years which holds the pivotal key to the current issue. The huge delay in signing up the contracts had prompted the heated exchanges between then Aavin Managing Director Kamaraj and sitting dairy minister Rajendra Balaji and the minister had lost his control over Aavin after the intervention of Vijayakumar, who is one of the secretaries of Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami.

With the direction of the Madras High court, Aavin had finalized the tender for the new contracts in last October. However, it has been failing to announce the quote and the cost of the tender and after realizing the on-going encumbrance in providing the contract, the union of Milk tanker truck transport had called for a strike across the state by accusing Aavin's actions that would heavily affect their livelihoods. When we asked Marappan, the president of Tamil Nadu Milk Tanker society, he said that the authorities of Aavin are functioning as the owners of the company and their actions have been leading to the birth of bribes and corruptions. He stated that without allocating the contract, Aavin has been attempting to dissolve the contractors who have been with the company for the past three decades and the union has announced the strike by condemning the anti-contractor policy of Aavin.

Balaji, the proprietor of Balavignesh transport, said that as per the agreement signed in 2016, the government pays the transport Rs 24.80 per kilometer and the rate could have increased if Aavin renewed the contract and currently the tankers are transporting the milk to the Aavin unit as per 2016 rate. He highlighted that the prices of fuel and mechanisms have raised for the past four years but Aavin stands with the old price and the company has held talks with the union to reduce the price for a kilometer. The union had refused to agree with the price reduction after which Aavin had broken the talks. He questioned Aavin's decision for webbing the private tankers at the cost of Rs 34 per kilometer while it refuses to increase the old price for the tankers that have been with the Aavin for the past three decades.

While we reached out to some of the officials at Aavin, they revealed that the senior authorities have decided to award the entire contract for Christy foods limited, a Namakkal based company that has already been procuring the eggs and dhals from the government and distributing across the state under the Public distribution system. However, Dairy Minister Rajendra Balaji was against inducting Christy foods as the company has undergone IT raids recently. But, the sources say that his decision was overruled by the authorities and sitting Managing Director of Aavin Vallalar IAS has been denying the requests from the contracts and he reserved the entire contract to Christy foods upon the direction from the senior authorities.

The Unions had announced the strike by criticizing the move to rope in the Christy foods and to award the contract to the private transports. The sources cited that Dairy Minister Rajendra Balaji had taken the issue to the attention of Chief Minister Edappadi Palaniswami but the issue has been resting before the Chief Minister as he has been dealing with the ongoing protests in the state against the CAA, NRC, and NPR. The officials have claimed that Aavin's trademark can only be revived through removing or changing the current authorities.