UWCSL bags NCDC Cooperative Excellence Awards 2014
Source: Hueiyen News Service / MIC
New Delhi, April 29 2015 :
Utlou Weavers' Cooperative Society Limited (UWCSL), Bishnupur District has been conferred with the Biennial Award for Cooperative Excellence 2014.UWCSL Secretary Hanglem Debala Devi and an Executive Member received the award from the Union Minister of State for Agriculture Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya at a function held at at DS Kothari Hall, DRDO Bhawan in Delhi.
Vasudha Mishra, Managing Director of NCDC and Raj Singh, Joint Secretary, Department of Agriculture and Cooperation, Ministry of Agriculture and others were also present during the function.
National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) is a statutory Corporation set up under an act of Parliament in March 1963 for developing rural economic activities through cooperatives.
The NCDC Award for Cooperative Excellence is an initiative to encourage and give due recognition to those cooperatives who despite all odds, are able to sustain and work for development and prosperity of agrarian society.
Mohanbhai Kalyanjibhai Kundariya, while congratulating the best performing societies selected from their respective States for NCDC Biennial Awards for Cooperative Excellence observed that these awards would inspire other cooperative societies in the country to perform better in the days ahead.
A team comprising representatives of Cooperative Department, Manipur and Manipur State Cooperative Union and the NCDC Regional Office, Guwahati inspected various cooperative societies of Manipur and selected the society for the prestigious cooperative award.
UWCSL was established in 1963.The Society frequently organized programmes on agriculture and fisheries to provide supplementary source of livelihood to its members.
It had business turn-over of Rs 22.80 lakh and earned net profit of Rs 0.53 lakh in 2012-13.The Society received Kangjam Lukhoi Cooperative Award 2008 and 2010 of the State.