Our office is flooded with phone calls from persons working in the field projects of National Cooperative Union of India. They have not received salaries for last the 3-4 months and their future hangs in the balance. Caught in the cross-fire of Agricultural Ministry’s babus and obstinate cooperative leaders these poor fellows do not know where to go, what to do. Indian Cooperative is also in no position to help them. Ministry insists that without making suitable changes in the bye-laws ...

Government has informed Parliament that NABARD will move nearly a score of district development managers to poverty-stricken areas and set up several new branches in areas that are affected by ultra-leftism. NABARD will also cover areas where women self-help groups are at work, Parliament was told. According to Union Finance Minister, there would be more than 4 hundred DDM offices and NABARD would cover altogether 510 districts in the country. Sources say most of the new DDM offices would be ...