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In the initial stage co-operative movement in India stood up slowly. In 1904 British govt formed a co-operative rule on the basis of report given by Fredric Nicholson a British officer of Madras region. While the first co-operative society formed in Kaṇaginahāḷa of Gadaga district of Karnataka becoming the first co-operative of Asia. It ...
The Ministry of Cooperation is a Union ministry under the Government of India [1] which was formed in 2021. The ministry provides a separate administrative, legal and policy framework for strengthening the cooperative movement in the country.
In 1970, the cooperative spearheaded the "White Revolution" of India. To combine forces and expand the market while saving on advertising and avoiding competing against each other, the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing Federation Ltd., an apex marketing body of these district cooperatives, was set up in 1973.
The Co-operative Group formed gradually over 140 years from the merger of many independent retail societies, and their wholesale societies and federations. In 1863, twenty years after the Rochdale Pioneers opened their co-operative, the North of England Co-operative Society was launched by 300 individual co-ops across Yorkshire and Lancashire ...
Vaikunthbhai Lallubhai Mehta (26 October 1891 – 27 October 1964) was a pioneer leader of Indian Cooperative Movement. Vaikunthbhai was born at Bhavnagar in Bombay Presidency. Vaikunthbhai served the Bombay State Cooperative Bank, now Maharashtra State Cooperative Bank as Chief Executive for an uninterrupted period of about 35 years.
According to the United Nations, India bears 1/4th of the entire world's hunger burden. [79] This is despite India having overarching food ration and welfare schemes. [citation needed] The Agriculture Census in India, last held in 2014, identified that farmers in India have small land holdings, one of the reasons they are not able to meet their ...
Cooperative movement in India; Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1862; Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1876; Industrial and Provident Societies Act 1893; Industrial and Provident Societies Partnership Act 1852; Initiative 136; International Agrarian Bureau; International Co-operative Day
He also served as the president of the National Cooperative Union of India, the apex organisation of the cooperative movement in India. [1] The Reserve Bank of India included him as a member of the Survey Panel for the rural credit and, later, in 1952, he became a director of the apex bank in India, holding the post for a decade, till 1962. [7]