Cooperatives Minister Gopal Bhargava launched the first web portal for cooperatives’ elections in the country developed in Madhya Pradesh here on Monday. On the occasion, Bhargava also released a booklet of guidance incorporating electoral process for cooperative societies.
Minister Bhargava said that field of cooperatives is very vast and crores of people are linked with it. Cooperatives play important role in economy.
He said that democracy can be strengthened only through free, fair and transparent elections. With this in view, office of Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Elections Authority has evolved the web portal www://mpsc.nic.in/eelection/default.htm. Through the portal, people would obtain online information membership lists of cooperative societies and election programme. Minister Bhargava informed that Cooperatives Elections Authority has been constituted last year to comply with recommendations of Vaiydanthan Committee. He also praised efforts towards smooth conduct of electoral process. Bhargava said that election to about 1700 cooperative societies has been conducted in only one year, which is very important achievement.
Secretary Cooperatives Ajit Kesari informed that this laudable effort has been made by Election Authority to ensure free, fair and transparent cooperatives elections. It will also help in smooth conduct of elections. He informed that the state has over 40 thousand cooperative societies, of which elections of 8000 will be held every year. This work will be made further smooth due to use of information technology.
Election Officer Prabhat Parashar informed that Madhya Pradesh is the first state in the country where web portal has been evolved for cooperatives’ elections. Ramesh Dhiya also informed about web portal’s features. Chairman Senior Citizens’ Welfare Board VG Dharmadhikari, Managing Director Madhya Pradesh State Cooperative Milk Federation Jaishree Kiyawat and senior officers of Cooperatives Department and cooperative institutions were present on the occasion.