Union Home Minister Amit Shah, addressed the first-ever National Cooperative Conference in Delhi today. Lakhs of people around the world joined the programme virtually and thousands of people associated with cooperatives joined at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium. Union Minister shared the government’s vision and outlined the roadmap for the development of this sector in the country. Minister of State of Cooperation BL Verma and International Cooperatives Alliance (Global) President Ariel Guarco also participated in the conference.
Cooperative bodies including IFFCO, the National Cooperative Federation of India, Amul and Sahakar Bharti were organizers of the conference. The mega-conference has played a significant role in Indian cooperatives on the global stage and has been an initiative towards realizing Prime Minister Modi’s vision of ‘Sabka Saath, Sabka Vikas”. The Union Ministry of Cooperation was formed in July this year. The ministry’s main aim is to strengthen the cooperative movement in India, provide a separate administrative, legal and policy framework and streamline the processes to enable the development of Multi-State Cooperative Societies (MSCS).
