Journey to SaiSure Nutritions LLP – Mr. Susheel Kumar, Project and Process Consultant, SaiSure Nutritions, LLP
May 8th, 2023
This article describes the personal journey of Mr. Susheel, who was chosen by Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai to be the instrument for overseeing and setting up the SaiSure Nutritions plant, thereby starting a manufacturing facility that would cater to the needs of material supply of Annapoorna Trust. This article gives you an insider’s view of what happened and how it happened!
The genesis of SaiSure Nutritions LLP (SSNLLP)
It was in early October 2020 when a common associate, who happens to be an ardent devotee of Sadguru Sri Madhusudan Sai, contacted me in Mysore and informed me about the philanthropist work that Annapoorna Trust, Muddenahalli is doing to provide Morning Nutrition through breakfast and SaiSure health supplement to school-going children of Karnataka state in collaboration with the State Government – Ksheera Bhagya project.
At that time, the health supplements for pregnant women, toddler, and preschool and school children were outsourced by SaiSure from renowned food processing companies in and around Bengaluru. The SaiSure, think tank, in one of our meetings at Bengaluru, expressed their interest in setting up the plant to manufacture different variants of SaiSure and informed that a special purpose vehicle in the form of SaiSure Nutritions LLP (SSNLLP) has been registered with the Company Law Board.
Since January 2020, SSNLLP representatives were in correspondence with many equipment providers for setting up the plant and had gone around to many manufacturing units, including Amul, Gujarat, to see their facilities for selecting the process and equipment. Many alternatives were being examined for the plant – ranging from setting up the extrusion cooking to drum dryer and roasting plant entailing huge investment.
In December 2020, SSNLLP requested me to get involved with them as a consultant to set up the health supplement plant. Since I come from a very different background of project experience in setting up Alcoholic Beverage Plants, I had apprehension about accepting the assignment, and whether I could do justice to meeting the expectations of the stakeholders.
