[2] He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award jointly with Verghese Kurien and Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel in 1963 and the Padma Bhushan from the Government of India in 1964.
Dara Khurody was born on 2 January 1906 in Mhow town of now Madhya Pradesh state of India.
For the next ten years he worked as the dairy farm superintendent at Tata Iron & Steel Co. at Jamshedpur.
In this newly formed department he worked as the marketing officer for the dairy and animal husbandry products.
This fat was comparable with the cow-milk but at the same time was at half price of buffalo-milk making it affordable to general masses.
[8] The Colony engaged modern technologies of milk processing, toning, sterilizing, large-scale cheese production and logistics.
[10] As of 2015[update], the colony spread over 1,287 hectares (3,180 acres)[11] with numerous cattle sheds where owners could entrust their buffaloes to be accommodated and tended to, at a nominal fee.
His son Nawshir Khurody graduated from Trinity College, Cambridge, and was managing director of Voltas and chairman of Tata Infomedia.
[12] In 1963, Khurody, along with Verghese Kurien and Tribhuvandas Kishibhai Patel was presented with the Ramon Magsaysay Award for "Community Leadership".