The concept of cooperative farming could be beneficial for the agriculturalists of mountainous regions of Uttarakhand as individual land holdings are very small, said the newly elected member of governing council of National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI), Pramod Kumar Singh while interacting with the media persons here on Thursday.
Singh said that the State Government has initiated a plan to grant subsidies for mechanised farm equipments suitable for mountainous areas and the small and marginal farmers can avail this benefit by forming small cooperative societies.
He said that to revive cooperative movement in the country, the Government of Uttarakhand should implement the recommendations of Vaidhyanathan committee report. It is pertinent to mention here that all major States of the country barring Uttarakhand and Kerala have implemented the recommendations of the committee.
Singh claimed that the financial health of all the ten district cooperative banks in Uttarakhand is robust. The election for the governing council which is the coveted body of cooperative societies of the country was held on March 16.
Singh a member from Uttarakhand secured 33 votes out of 75 votes polled. Singh informed that after elections the Member of Parliament (MP) Chander Pal Singh was unanimously nominated for the post of President of NCUI by the governing council for second consecutive term.
Pramod Kumar Singh is the first person from the State of Uttarakhand who is elected in the governing council of NCUI. He said the aim of NCUI is to make the cooperative movement in the country more progressive and developed. The NCUI meets this objective by imparting education by means of regular training programmes.
The union has national cooperative education centre at New Delhi which imparts training to selected members from the cooperative organisations of the country. The NCUI has 20 training centres in different parts of the country.