Make co-operatives viable: President
New Delhi: President Pranab Mukherjee on Tuesday called for making co-operatives commercially viable and using them effectively in areas like rural health, education, credit, water-harvesting, precision farming, tourism, communication and hospitality etc. Inaugurating the 16th Indian Cooperative Congress, the President emphasised the need to give recognition to co-operatives as an important sector of economy as they are the best way of reaching out into the vast hinterland of the country where the poor and the marginalised sections live. He said that co-operatives must be managed by adequately trained and enthusiastic members.
RS members can donate Rs 50 lakh from MPlAD
New Delhi: The Rajya Sabha members can now recommend work up to a maximum of Rs 50 lakh from their MPlAD for the flood and landslide affected districts of Uttarakhand as the Government has declared it as a calamity of severe nature. Also, the employees of Rajya Sabha Secretariat have decided to voluntarily donate their one day’s salary towards the Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund for the relief and rehabilitation of the affected people of the State.