Billing for your dairy in Silvassa, Daman and Diu
The litres you delivered, the days she was away, and the month's total, kept on your phone.
From the first can on the round to the weekly tea stall total
Two men, one room, one litre, each pays his half
Two men from another state share a room and a litre of milk each morning, and each pays his half on his own wage day. Open a page for each man. The morning's litre is a bill of half a litre on each page, with the date, so each man reads out his own total on his own pay-day and the room never argues.
The guest house that takes cans only in the busy weeks
A guest house near the beach takes a can each morning when the Devka and Nagoa crowds come, and none after. In the crowd weeks its page fills with dated bills, one a morning. The week the crowds go, the bills stop, and the last one tells you the day to stop sending the can, so you do not carry the extra litres into the next morning.
The factory-gate stall's page shows a late month as unpaid cans
The stall at the factory gate pays when the factory pays you, so its page is the longest in your book. Each can is a dated line on it. When the factory is late, the month shows as cans not yet paid for, and you read that number before you decide to send another can. The stall's owner can read the same page on WhatsApp.
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Tools for a counter that opens before the first bus
Daily reports
Each day of the week as one line: the litres to the round, the cans to the stall and the curd made, so a short Wednesday is easy to see.
Credit book (khata)
A can left hanging at a locked door is a dated line of its own on the house's page.
Bills on your phone
A cup of curd and a glass of lassi for a visitor, each its own item, on the same bill as the litre of milk he carries away.
A milk book with ticks for every day, and curd made from what did not sell
The can that hung at a locked door
Families of factory workers from other states go home for a month in the festival season and do not always tell you. The notebook has ticks for the days the can hung at a locked door, and at the month's end the family says it never took that milk. What was delivered and what was refused are the same tick, and you cannot prove the days either way.
Houses, tea stall and hotel share one can, and nobody knows who took how much
Three kinds of buyer share the morning's milk: the houses on the round, the tea stall at the gate and the small hotel. Whatever is left when the round ends goes to curd. You cannot say whether the stall took more than usual or the houses did, and in the heat the evening count is a guess. The houses pay for their litres by the month and the hotel by the week, so one wrong guess is paid for twice.
The factory-gate tea stall pays when the factory pays
The tea stall at the factory gate sells to the shift outside and pays you when its own wages come. Some months the factory pays late and the stall pays later, and the stall's page is the longest in the book and the one nobody has read since the last pay-day. A stall that is short in the weeks the factory is shut can still be a good customer, but only if every can is on its page.
Questions dairies in Silvassa, Daman and Diu ask
A flat stops taking its litre when the family goes home for the festival month. What happens to its page?
Nothing is billed while the family is away, and the page keeps the bills made before. When the family returns and the litre starts again, the new bills go on the same page.
A tenant leaves his flat and a new one moves in. Do I start a new page?
Yes. Leave the old page as it is, with what he owes written on it, and open a new page in the new tenant's name. The old page stays readable.
I make paneer on some days only, from the milk that did not sell. Can I add it to stock on those days alone?
Yes. Paneer is an item with its own rate. On the days you make it, note the pieces in. On the other days its count stays where it was, and each piece you sell to the hotel or the tea stall comes off it.
A buyer from the Gujarat side takes a can every Saturday and pays on the spot. Do I need a page for him?
No. A can paid for on the spot is a quick bill and the bill is the record. A page is for the buyer who pays later.
A Silvassa milk cooperative and the demand that visitors and factories bring
Vasudhara Dairy collects 1,850 litres of milk a day from Silvassa through 18 dudh sahakari mandalis, which have 364 members in all. A small dairy shop here buys from the same villages that fill the cooperative's cans, so the day's count starts with what arrived and not with a guess.
Tourist flow and industrialisation have increased the demand for milk in Dadra and Nagar Haveli, says the district industrial potential survey. More workers and more visitors mean more households and hotels asking for a place on the round.