SUCCESS AND CHALLENGES FOR COOPERATIVES …………3
Dr Balraj Vishnoi
Cooperative Movement emerged as one
of the largest in India. Cooperative Societies is a State subject thus every
state enacted its own Cooperative Societies Acts. Main challenge is in terms of
their progress for rural India in qualitative terms has not been up to mark in
Rajasthan due to various reasons as intervention in functioning with less
autonomy despite constitutional amendment. The Government took different
remedial measures to promote cooperatives
which include national policy for cooperative society, Multi-State Cooperative Societies
Act, assistance to cooperative education
(ACE) and training Needs evaluation and reforms, assistance for Integreted cooperative development Projects (ICDP) in selected districts of Rajasthan and other states in through NCDC (GOI) for development of cooperatives grassroot level, revival need and implementation of recommendations of Vaidyanathan Committee report and other measures for success of cooperatives in states with amendment in state acts , which is not encouraging due to lack of innovation and lacks inclusion of best practices from states like Maharastra, Karnataka and Gujarat. Need to strictly follow provisions for autonomous operation of cooperatives with democratic protection and voluntary memership. The right to form cooperative societies made a fundamental right by parliament with vitality of multi-State cooperative societies (MSCS) by the State Legislature and to ensure the autonomy with democratism in cooperatives, accountability of management and board of director to be ensured.
(ACE) and training Needs evaluation and reforms, assistance for Integreted cooperative development Projects (ICDP) in selected districts of Rajasthan and other states in through NCDC (GOI) for development of cooperatives grassroot level, revival need and implementation of recommendations of Vaidyanathan Committee report and other measures for success of cooperatives in states with amendment in state acts , which is not encouraging due to lack of innovation and lacks inclusion of best practices from states like Maharastra, Karnataka and Gujarat. Need to strictly follow provisions for autonomous operation of cooperatives with democratic protection and voluntary memership. The right to form cooperative societies made a fundamental right by parliament with vitality of multi-State cooperative societies (MSCS) by the State Legislature and to ensure the autonomy with democratism in cooperatives, accountability of management and board of director to be ensured.
As the Constitutional
status and Autonomy to the cooperatives provided in the U.N. Year of
cooperative 2012 by constitutional amendment , 2011 in India. Need to signify cooperatives’ economic institutional need from
the farmers perspective to eradicate indebtedness and poverty in rural India
and taken as challenge for the cooperative societies to get rid of weak and inactive societies due to politicization of
cooperative leadership as the Boards of a majority of cooperative Bodies are
dominated by politicians. As
per the second Administrative Reforms
Commission (ARC) was critical of the needless influence of the State with less autonomy
and politicization at all levels impaired the proper functioning of cooperative.
Thus besides giving constitutional status to cooperative societies ;positive and
active rescue operation as a medicinal remedy is need today in 2014 after 2
years of autonomy status to these societies with “a step in the direction to make the cooperative institutions
voluntary, democratic, professional, member-driven and member-centric
enterprises and making amendment in Constitution in Article 19, 19(1)(h) i.e.“ to form and run cooperatives
based on principles of voluntary and open membership, democratic member
control, member economic participation, and autonomous functioning free from
State control .”
There should be no prejudice by the Central
Government for cooperative sector but needfully substantial economic structural
functional provision needful as compulsion. Necessarily the management of cooperative
society to be regulated ensuring member centric nature of cooperatives. Instances
like Campa housing society should be avoided it’s a disturbing case due to
carelessness of BMC and cooperative society as in Mumbai every building built is necessarily a
cooperative , here 102 families getting homeless due to malpractices
of housing cooperatives and BMC as well as unawareness of innocent families
living there since long back.
Significant role of rural farmer to
be supported by the democratic process of Panchayats grassroots level and a democratic participation of cooperative
autonomy to be secured in independent system for socio-economic upliftment in
the state voluntarily nature to establish cooperatives rather than involvement
of bureaucracy. A positive sign that Constitution Amendment gives a “democratically
governed, efficiently managed, financially sustainable, self-reliant entities
that can provide a wider range of financial services to the rural poor”
as stressed earlier by World Bank 2007
report pg. 1-3. Compulsory election all over India in primary cooperative , district cooperative ,
farmers' cooperative, employees' cooperative, bunker sangh, housing cooperative
societies etc with a reservation for the Scheduled Castes, the Scheduled
Tribes, the OBCs, women and people with disabilities.
The Central Government should
restrain from interference in the State Governments to make legislation concerned
with cooperatives. The cooperative societies lends soft loans to
farmers at the time of harvest at a minimal rate of interest.
The cooperative movement playing great role towards economic development and is
an substitute for capitalist economy and socialist based ideology of economy. Successful
illustration is of economy in Maharashtra eg. sugar industry and milk sector
etc. cooperative societies have playing influencing role for rural development and
to be revived successfully in all sectors. Strengthening cooperative movement can
be catalyzer for Industrialization rural India. Role of investment is
significant for the cooperative societies and will assist in the welfare of farmers,
weaker sections and marginal groups of people. …………………to
be continue
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