Meanwhile Anand was forging ahead and processing of milk and production plans of milk, pannier, butter and other items were also a success. In 1970, the Indian government decided that the Anand model should be replicated gradually all over the country. The milk producing farmers could be enthused to get better yield and re-invest their savings in more milk-producing cattle if they were properly organized in cooperatives in which they were co-shares and participated as members of an organization. This realization helped in extending the Anand experiment to other parts of the country. It was then that the Operation Flood was launched and the urban consuming areas of the four metropolitan cities of Delhi, Calcutta, Bombay and Madras were brought in closer relationship with rural producers through the cooperatives. The rural milk production and procurement centres were linked with the urban demand centres and processing capacity stepped up substantially. By the end of the Operation Flood-I there were 13,000 Anand pattern dairy cooperatives in 39 districts milk union in the country. They handled three million litres of milk daily.