Pune Dec 19 PTI Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said the Centre will come up with various measures to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country aiming to set up a transparent system for agriculture finance Speaking at the convocation ceremony of Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management VAMNICOM here Shah said that the government will amend the multi-state Cooperative Act and try to plug all loopholes besides taking other measures He also said that a new cooperative policy will be brought soon On the occasion Shah said the Centre will soon set up a national university for cooperative management courses He said that the cooperative movement in the country has weakened in the last several years We will have to once again strengthen the cooperative sector and make it the biggest contributor in the countrys GDP and for that all you have to work with dedication in your respective fields Shah told the students He said that to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country the Narendra Modi government is bringing many measures We will amend the multi-state Cooperative Act and we will try to plug all loopholes Primary Agricultural Credit Societies PACS which are the soul of the cooperative movement will be connected to district cooperative banks The DCCs will be connected to state cooperative banks and state cooperative banks will be linked to NABARD said Shah adding that by doing this the government wants to bring a transparent system for agriculture finance He added that if PACS function transparently then the countrys economic wheel will gather pace and a lot of the schemes from different departments will get percolated down through the cooperative sector In his address Shah said there are several opportunities in the cooperative sector available for students stepping out of these institutes with degrees Today you are also stepping out of this institute VAMNICOM is not a university and there is no atmosphere possibility that it will become so But it has associated itself with various state-level institutes from 24 states in a short period he said We will very soon set up a university for cooperative management coursesIt will be a national university and several colleges from states will affiliate themselves with this university Shah added He said India scripted several success stories in the cooperative sector and when India wants to stand aatmanirbhar self-reliant in front of the world the cooperative sector will play an important role One meaning of becoming aatmanirbhar is to manufacture all the necessary things in India while the other meaning is to make 130 crore people of the country self-reliant Shah said If we want to make 130 crore people aatmanirbhar and bring about equal development cooperative is the only sector which will offer all-round development equal development and opportunity to these 130 crore people and help them become self-reliant he said Shah also said that many farmers in the country are adopting the organic farming model However they are not getting the right price for their produce he said There is no system for soil and product certification We have decided to bring in a system in which global valid certificates will be issued for products of farmers engaged in organic farming They will receive a higher price for their products We will rope in entities like Amul which has several success stories to its credit in the cooperative sector in this endeavour he said Shah further said that the Centre wants to expand the scope of the cooperative sector in the country If we want to increase the scope of the cooperative sector we will have to bring a cooperative policy through which implementation can be done for the next 25 years he said Speaking at a function related to the cooperative sector in Ahmednagar district on Saturday Shah had said that some state governments were not giving bank guarantees to sugar mills whose management is politically linked to opposition parties He had said that he was not going to be a mute spectator in this sector PTI SPK NP NSK NSK

Pune Dec 19 PTI Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday announced that the Centre will soon set up a national university for cooperative management courses Speaking at the convocation ceremony of Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management VAMNICOM here Shah added that the government is also coming up with a new cooperative policy soon There are a number of opportunities in the cooperative sector before the students who are today stepping out of these institutes with degrees he said Today you are also stepping out of this institute VAMNICOM is not a university and there is no atmosphere possibility that it will become so But it has associated itself with various state-level institutes from 24 states in a short span of time he said We will very soon set up a university for cooperative management coursesIt will be a national university and a number of colleges from the states will affiliate themselves with this university Shah added According to him India has achieved several success stories in the cooperative sector and when India wants to stand aatmanirbhar self-reliant in front of the world the cooperative sector will play an important role PTI SPK NP NP