Mamata Banerjee, the Chief Minister of West Bengal seems to be bowing before the NABARD’s resistance to her proposed amendment in the state cooperative act, 2006. Her Cooperative Minster has rushed to add that the state would take Nabard into confidence before amending the act. In her populist bid the Chief Minister had said that recovery would not be made from defaulting cooperative loanees thereby stifling the cooperative movement. An organization can last only when it is accountable and ...

Himachal Chief Minister an ardent supporter of the cooperative movement could not help expatiating on the virtues of it when recently addressing a function of Kangra Cooperative Bank in Una district. He said the cooperative institutions could play a vital role in the development of Himachal Pradesh. He has asked officials to work out a comprehensive plan for the development of marketing facilities for agricultural produce in the state. The Chief Minister was all praise for efforts being made at ...

In an interesting analysis offered by experts it is becoming clear that lack of clear-cut policy on Urea proved nemesis for former Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati. Mayawati’s loss was triggered by dwindling of only about 3.75 percentage of votes. Swaminathan S. Anklesaria Aiyar of Swamonomics fame theorizes that this loss of vote was due to urea anger. In the rabi season farmers were a highly frustrated lot due to unavailability of the urea in the state. Queuing up for hours ...

The Chief Minister of Madhya Pradesh Shivraj Singh Chouhan inaugurated global convention on cooperation to mark the International Year of Cooperation 2012 on Febraury 9 in Bhopal.The convention was held in Bhopal under the joint aegis of Cooperatives Department and Sahkar Bharti. More than 300 delegates from 25 to 30 countries took part in the convention. Latest developments in the cooperative sector in various countries were discussed and different dimensions of the cooperative movement ...