Rajasthan’s Chief Minister, Ashok Gehlot, has called for more cooperation from NABARD in giving impetus to the cooperative movement and strengthening cooperative institutions in the state. He has said that NABARD can play more vigorous and active participation in the projects related to the development of the state through cooperatives.
NABARD’s chairman, Dr GR Chintala met Gehlot on September 27 at the CM’s residence. During this, the CM said that the state government is making constant efforts to promote cooperative institutions in the state and for their financial empowerment. He asked the chairman of NABARD to cooperate in the expansion and computerisation of village service cooperative institutions in the state. At the same time, emphasising on the diversification of the work of village service cooperative societies, he talked about benefiting them under the schemes of NABARD to connect them with other innovative activities like agricultural processing and marketing etc.
The CM called upon NABARD to cooperate in providing market linkage at national and international level to the people associated with handicrafts and spice growers to get reasonable prices for their products.
During this, Gehlot also urged NABARD to increase the loan targets given for the development of infrastructure for the state from Rs1800 crores per annum to Rs10 thousand crores per annum. This will help the state government in better implementation of schemes related to roads, agriculture, animal husbandry and rural development.
Dr Chintala informed the Chief Minister about the financial support being done through the bank in the projects related to the development of rural infrastructure in the state. He said that NABARD would extend full cooperation for the development of the state.