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Inviting Suggestions for the proposed New Cooperative Policy

Suggestions for the proposed New Cooperative Policy
Start Date :
May 27, 2022
Last Date :
Jun 15, 2022
23:45 PM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Cooperatives are the mainstay of the rural economy ensuring sustainable livelihoods and income for people. There are 8.5 lakh cooperatives in India, out of which 1.77 lakh (about ...

Cooperatives are the mainstay of the rural economy ensuring sustainable livelihoods and income for people. There are 8.5 lakh cooperatives in India, out of which 1.77 lakh (about 20%) are credit cooperatives and the remaining 80% are non-credit cooperatives engaged in various activities. The cooperative movement has fostered a membership of more than 29 crores with a network stretching through the entire length and breadth of India. The cooperatives play a significant role in growth and development of various sectors by generating employment and income, for examples - Dairy (1,77,314 Co-operatives with turnover of Rs. 93,556 crores), Housing (28,945 Co-operatives with Loans Disbursed of Rs. 12,711 crores), Labour (46,818 Co-operatives with Membership of 27,30,000), Fertilizers (Co-operatives producing 20% of total Fertiliser in country), Fisheries (20,804 Co-operatives with membership of 32 lakhs), Sugar (188 Sugar Factories with Production of 35% of total Sugar produce), Agro- processing etc. Also Credit Cooperatives are key to ensuring financial inclusiveness in the country by disbursing credit to marginal sectors. These milestones have been achieved through a network of 21 national-level, 390 state-level, and 2705 district-level cooperative federations in the country.

The new Ministry of Cooperation has been set up by the Government of India by notification dated 06.07.2021 with the mandate of realization of vision “Sahakar se Samriddhi”, strengthening of cooperative movement in the country, deepening its reach up to the grassroots, creation of appropriate policy, legal and institutional framework to help cooperatives realize their potential, etc. As one of the major steps to fulfil the above mandate, the Ministry is in process of formulating a new cooperation policy, since the existing policy was formulated way back in 2002. The new policy would address the challenges faced by the sector in today’s world.

The new cooperation policy is being formulated in consultation with all the stakeholders. The Ministry has received many valuable inputs and suggestions from the State Governments, Central Ministries, Federations and Institutions. A national conference with State Governments and the Central Ministries was also held on 12-13 April, 2022 at Delhi. The Ministry is also in the process of holding a series of stake holder consultations for formulation of new cooperation policy.

As a part of this consultation, the Ministry is inviting your valuable inputs/ suggestion for formulating the national cooperation policy under various themes.

Kindly share your suggestions as per the following Categories :
i. Cooperative Governance
ii. Legal and Regulatory Framework
iii. Training Education and HR Policy
iv. Cooperatives to be Vibrant Economic Units
v. Setting New Cooperatives, Sustainable Development of Cooperative
vi. Diversification of Cooperatives/ Social Cooperatives

The last date to receive suggestions is 15 June,2022

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sujit lotlikar
sujit lotlikar 3 years 6 months ago
new concept must be started under cooperative movement, every village or town most of the land agriculture farming not conducted by owner & tenant or litigation ,farming is also inconvenient & costly if they do individually. register such cooperative farming society under panchayat or temple , let villager register under this two all uncultivated farms or within time limit panchayat or temple should start cultivation under aatmanirbhar, based on ownership shares can be allotted thereafter to legal ownership. govt subsidy will not waste, good infrastructural development, property water channel, water harvesting, 100% yield, within village employment,
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sujit lotlikar
sujit lotlikar 3 years 6 months ago
ii. Legal and Regulatory Framework.... It is notice in small housing society, no member take active part in affairs , nor take interest in responding legal notice or litigation whatsoever nature.FACTS ;- construction of housing complex up to registration of society all legal formality checked BY AUTHORITY and registered HAS SOCIETY. ISSUE;-new trends started BY property grabber , to take advantage of sleeping society , fraudster( unrelated to property ) file adverse possession of society property , they use judiciary laws has tools to hijack ownership , they understand no member will come to defend or argue within to protect ownership, by the time blind judiciary pass blind judgement . suggestion;- to protect small housing society from fraudster, make it a rule PRIOR PERMISSION MUST BE TAKEN BY ALL THOSE WHO FILE CASE AGAINST small housing Society , AT-LEAST Society CAN VERIFY DETAILS AND STOP FAKE CASES and alert judiciary.
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sujit lotlikar
sujit lotlikar 3 years 6 months ago
i. Cooperative Governance# bylaws should differ based on type of co-society , one procedure one method to all registered under society is costly and discouraging , SMALL HOUSING society is made for convenience TO TRANSFER OF OWNERSHIP FLAT & MAINTENANCE, most of the member not ready to take responsibility has chairman or other position, some members do not contribute for small maintenance expense also, whosoever take burden of maintenance has to do at on own cost being one member. small housing society with less than 10 flats must be excluded from expensive procedure like audit, election, fact is revenue collection for maintenance of such small society annually receipt less than 20000/- and yearly expense on election audit with conveyance reaches higher than revenue.
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Vijay Dubey
Vijay Dubey 3 years 6 months ago
Cat i. The registration process for co-operative societies may be made simpler and governed through Single window containing all schemes, benefits of co-operative societies etc along with the registration requirements/ documentation. Attractive Tax benefits may be introduced to augment the policy.
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Saripalli Suryanarayana
Saripalli Suryanarayana 3 years 6 months ago
1.Complete haul of co- operatives. Add ,yearly returns,election overseeing, ED,IT preview. 2.Accounts of Socities,Associations,Trusts to be revamed.Institution of Engineers, Head Office at 8 Gokhale Road, lost 35 crore in a scam.The WB police handed over case to ED,for safety issues. The issues of Technical issues are plenty. overseeing capacity. Trust Secretary should be qualified. Overseeing finance Department should be created. Yearly elections to be held. A authority to club all accounts of other many centers,a new overseeing elections body.Yearly submissions of accounts to IT,ED has to be mandatory
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DHARMARAJAN GANESAN
DHARMARAJAN GANESAN 3 years 6 months ago
Though started with lofty principles, the co op movement in India became a fountainhead of corruption, polticalisation. The new policy have to ensure strict observation of rules against corruption at any level and misuse of bye laws for personal ends of Managing committees with majoritarianism. For example I would like to suggest Govt of India to study the Southern Railway Employees co op credit society, Trichy and Chennai, to find what not to follow in co op movement. Thanks, Jai Modiji and Bharath.
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