Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan has said that cooperative is in our customs and culture. We follow the path of “Sarve Bhavantu Sukhinah” and “Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam”. The thinking for everyone's benefit, everyone's welfare and everyone's wellbeing is cooperatives.
Chouhan said that Madhya Pradesh presented the ideal of disaster control through cooperatives during the period of Covid. The district, block, ward and village level Crisis Management Committees played a very important role in controlling the corona.
The Chief Minister said that cooperatives are omnipresent like God and do welfare of all. Extremely useful especially for those of smaller means. They have intelligence, efficiency, ability but they do not have economic and other resources. The cooperative provides them all. More and more employment opportunities will be created in the state through cooperatives in various sectors.
Chouhan was addressing a workshop on the topic “Cooperative Movement in MP: New Energy, New Power and New Horizons” at Mantralaya today. Cooperative experts from various fields, Cooperative Minister Arvind Singh Bhadauria, MP Ramakant Bhargava, Chief Secretary Iqbal Singh Bains were present in the workshop.
Chouhan said that women self-help groups in Madhya Pradesh have set the best example of cooperatives. To empower them in the state, a bank loan of Rs 1400 crore has been made available at 4% interest rate.
Chouhan said that the economy would be rebuilt through cooperatives in the state. Cooperation will be strengthened in various sectors like tourism, dairy, animal husbandry, fisheries etc. Cooperatives will become 'engine of growth' in the state.