Days after a Parliamentary Standing Committee suggested it to “exercise utmost prudence” whereas chalking out actions in order that the nation’s federal options are usually not “impinged upon”, the newly created cooperation ministry is launching a session course of on its proposed new coverage.
On April 12, the ministry will start internet hosting a two-day nationwide convention that may see each central and state officers supply suggestions on the coverage, which goals to widen the attain of cooperatives to the grassroots and strengthen the cooperative sector.
The Center plans to finalize the brand new coverage by the top of the 2022-23 fiscal.
Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will inaugurate the convention. Shah had final 12 months introduced to switch the present cooperation coverage, created in 2002 by the Atal Bihari Vajpayee-led authorities.
The Center had just lately written to states and different stakeholders asking for options on the brand new coverage. An official mentioned: “We have obtained 54 options concerning the brand new cooperation coverage. Of these, 10 options have come from the involved central ministries, 20 from states and the remaining have come from federations.”
These options may also be mentioned through the convention, the official added.
According to a press release issued by the ministry on Friday, the convention will see discussions on six themes overlaying points resembling “legal framework, identification of regulatory policy, operational barriers and measures required for their removal, ease of doing business, level playing field to cooperatives, account keeping & auditing, promoting entrepreneurship, training and education, social cooperatives and role of cooperatives in social security”.
Among these central officers attending would be the secretaries of three key departments – Agriculture, Rural and Textiles – the assertion mentioned.
“More than two dozen central ministries represented by secretaries and joint secretaries, all state governments and Union Territories represented by their chief secretaries, additional chief secretaries, principal secretaries and registrar cooperatives and heads of around 40 cooperative and other major national institutions will participate in this conference,” it added.
According to the assertion, the ministry is planning a collection of such conferences with completely different stakeholders, moreover, shortly, one other workshop with all cooperative federations to ask their views.
“These efforts will culminate in the formulation of a new robust National Cooperation Policy, giving impetus to strengthen the cooperative based economic model in the country to realise the vision and mantra of Sahkar Se Samaridhi…” the assertion mentioned.
In its report tabled in Lok Sabha on March 24, 2022, the Standing Committee on Agriculture, Animal Husbandry and Food Processing, headed by BJP member PC Gaddigoudar, had noticed that the topic ‘Cooperative Societies’ is a State topic included in Item 32 of List-II (State List) within the Seventh Schedule of the Constitution.
It had mentioned, “The Cooperative Societies registered under the State Cooperation Societies Acts are governed by the concerned Registrars of Cooperative Societies. Many Cooperative Institutions have also been set up under the State Cooperative Laws for the promotion of Cooperative Societies.”
“Taking into account all these factors, the committee, while lauding the efforts and initiatives of the government for strengthening the Cooperative Movement in the country, express the view that the Ministry of Cooperation shall exercise utmost prudence in chalking out its Activities / Schemes / Programmes at National Level so that the federal features of country are not impinged upon and all the stakeholders in the Cooperative Sector are duly benefited,” the committee had added.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
