Nemcha seeks Centre's support to develop Co-op sector
Source: Chronicle News Service / DIPR

Imphal, September 08 2022: Cooperation minister Nemcha Kipgen on Thursday attended a national conference of state cooperation ministers at Vigyan Bhawan, New Del hi which was inaugurated by Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah as chief guest in the presence of Union minister of state for cooperation BL Verma.

During the conference, minister Nemcha highlight ed the various achievements and initiatives taken up by the Department of Cooperation, Manipur and informed that Manipur is on the path of development in the cooperative sector under the keen guidance and leadership of chief minister N Biren Singh.

The minister further stated that with new initiatives, strong support and assistance from the cooperation minister, the state cooperation is making efforts to boost the functioning of the state cooperative societies and make them function on the lines of the cooperative principles, and help in the financial uplift of a major chunk of the population, particularly the rural population, to boost to the economy of the state.

Nemcha Kipgen also informed that there are more than 12,000 cooperative societies in the state of Manipur along with stating that the model bye-law for multi-dimensional Primary Agricultural Credit Cooperative Societies (PACS) will be considered to make the state's weak PACS more viable and vibrant.

Making the PACS multi-dimensional will also help PACS become more effective and dynamic to meet the needs of the changing times, she asserted.

The minister further informed the gathering that the proposal to have at least one good and efficient PACS or dairy or fishery cooperative societies in each and every Panchayat will be taken up in Manipur.

Continuing that the state has limited resources, Nemcha Kipgen stressed on the need to avail the various supports available under the 'Sahkar Se Samriddhi' umbrella scheme of the ministry of cooperation and fervently appealed for proactive support of the ministry and the NCDC to the various projects to help the people of Manipur through the cooperative societies.

The cooperation minister also expressed confidence that the new national cooperation policy will provide a strong framework for strengthening the cooperative societies in Manipur.

Suggestions were already submitted during the two-day national conference on the proposed new national cooperation policy during April 2022, she added.

Nemcha mentioned that National Cooperative University will help the efforts in providing awareness and education to the cooperative societies presently through the cooperation department, ICM and MSCU amongst others.

"Proposed new multi-state cooperative societies is also considered to be the need of the changing times and my state will be keen to take up this new model to benefit our cooperative societies," said Nemcha.

She also informed that various projects have been submitted to NCDC and appealed to NCDC to consider with Special concern for the need of the north-east states.

The cooperation ministry is organising such a conference to further deliberate on the issues related to the cooperation sector.

On the first day of the conference, there was a ministerial level deliberation on various agenda while on Friday, the states and union territories will be given an opportunity to showcase achievements and initiatives taken up by them to reform the cooperative sector in their respective states/UTs.

Notably, the vision of 'Cooperation to Prosperity' can be realised by strengthening the cooperative movement in the county; taking it to the grassroots and promoting the cooperative based economic development model.

For the purpose of creating suitable policy, legal and institutional infrastructure for fulfilment of this goal, a separate Ministiy of Cooperation was formed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 6, 2021 .

Minister Nemcha Kipgen was accompanied by Cooperation ACS P Vaiphei, Cooperative Societies deputy registrar (admin) Oinam Jiten Singh and officials of the department.

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