Union Home Minister and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah unveiled the National Cooperative Policy 2025 at Atal Akshay Uraja Bhavan on Thursday, stating that the government is moving ahead with the target of being at least one cooperative in every village.
The purpose of this policy is to strengthen cooperative units at the grassroots level and ensure inclusive development, especially among villages, farmers, women, Dalits and tribal communities.
Speaking at the event, Amit Shah said, “In 2002, the Government of India introduced a cooperative policy. At that time, the BJP was in the government. The second cooperative policy is brought by the BJP government. We are moving forward with the goal of being at least one cooperative in every village.”
“The government’s approach, which understands all the factors required for India, its development and India’s development, is only one that can give importance to the cooperative sector. If the country’s basic unit and economy are rich, planned and satisfied, this economic model can never fail.” Shah said.
The minister highlighted the core vision and mission behind the new policy, stating that it put people and rural development at the center of the scheme.
“While making the cooperative policy, it was taken care that the central point of the policy would be village, agriculture, village women, Dalits, tribals. In a sentence, its vision is to create a developed India through the prosperity of cooperation in 2047,” Shah said.
He said in detail on the mission, “Its mission is to develop professional, transparent, technical, responsible and economically independent and successful small cooperative units.”
According to the Ministry of Cooperation, the new Cooperative Policy 2025 is aimed at reviving and modernizing the cooperative sector, as well as a realization of prosperity through cooperation by creating a roadmap at the ground level.
In 2002, India’s first National Cooperative Policy was released, providing a infrastructure for better management of economic activities within cooperative institutions.
“In the last 20 years, there have been many major changes due to globalization and technical progress in society, country and the world. Keeping these changes, it became necessary to formulate a new policy, so that cooperative institutions can be made more active and useful in the current economic scenario and the role of the cooperative sector can be strengthened to achieve the target of Viksit 2047.”
The objective of the National Cooperative Policy is to include cooperative institutions, manage them professionally, prepare them for the future and to be able to create large -scale employment and livelihood opportunities, especially in rural India. (AI)
