NEW DELHI: The Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah addressed a two-day national conference of State Cooperation Ministers at Vigyan Bhawan in New Delhi on Thursday. Several dignitaries including Minister of State for Cooperation BL Verma and Cooperative Ministers of 21 States and Lt. Governors of 2 Union Territories were present in the conference.
In his address, the Union Cooperation Minister said that this two-day conference will prove to be a step in the coming days to take cooperatives to a new level in this country.He said that cooperative in India is an old idea and culture, but if we do not make timely changes in any activity, it becomes out of date and now the time has come for the cooperative sector to strengthen itself according to the needs of today.
Shah said that the Ministry of Cooperation was formed by the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on July 6, 2021 and in almost a year, the Ministry has organized many meetings and conferences in all the related areas of cooperatives. Cooperation is mainly a state subject and our constitution has left all the activities of cooperative to the states, but in a vast country like India, the entire cooperative movement should follow the same path, for this, all the states have to decide their common views about it.
Amit Shah said that it is most important to strengthen the PACS to strengthen the cooperative and for this the Modi government has taken several initiatives. He told the cooperative ministers of the states that all of us together have to inculcate the spirit of Team India in the cooperative sector, stated a press release.
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