Niti Aayog VC: Need to make cooperatives accountable

Vadodara/ Anand: Cooperatives in the nation should be made responsible and fragmented farmers should congregate to make stronger the aggressive benefits of cooperatives as business enterprises.
This is what Dr Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman of Niti Aayog, mentioned on Tuesday throughout a cooperative conclave on ‘improving aggressive benefits of dairy cooperatives as business enterprises’.

The two-day conclave organized through the National Dairy Development Board (NDDB) in collaboration with National Cooperative Dairy Federation of India Limited (NCDFI) and the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) at IRMA started on Tuesday.

“The economic truth has modified since the Amul model started in 1947. There is a need to introspect in regards to the cooperative movement amid changing prerequisites,” mentioned Kumar, stressing that in conjunction with professionalization, the human dedication towards nationwide reason calls for special attention.

Dairy cooperatives need to be supplied with latest technology, inbuilt mechanism for powerful governance, awesome business model and transparent working programs.

He mentioned that dairy cooperatives are useless in many parts of the country, making them incapable to serve the interests of small milk manufacturers.

“But it is possible to rejuvenate them through bringing in regards to the required reforms and restructuring of those institutions. Cooperatives are anticipated to be as environment friendly as their counterparts in private sector to higher serve the interests in their member manufacturers,” he mentioned.


NDDB chairman Dilip Rath mentioned that India has an unlimited network of over 1,87,000 village dairy cooperatives.


“Unfortunately, the luck of dairy cooperatives has not been uniform across the nation. The share of village coverage in main dairying states varies from as little as 13 % in Jharkhand to with reference to 100% in Gujarat. At all India stage, the achieve of dairy cooperatives is restricted to 60% of the dairy attainable villages,” he mentioned.


“Now is the correct time to present some other big push to the milk sector through launching a sequel to the National Dairy Plan phase-I, which closes this year,” he mentioned.


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