National Cooperative University to be built by centre soon: Amit Shah
He announced to bring in skilled and effective manpower to ensure professionalism in the co-operative sector while adding that the Centre is coming up with various initiatives in the sector.
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah has announced that the central government is planning to soon set up a national university offering cooperative training courses in its colleges in different parts of the country. He announced to bring in skilled and effective manpower to ensure professionalism in the co-operative sector while adding that the Centre is coming up with various initiatives in the sector.
While speaking at the convocation ceremony of the Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management (VAMNICOM) in Pune, the Minister said the Narendra Modi-led BJP Government was also coming up with a new cooperative policy soon to expand business in the cooperation sector. He stressed on implementation of a cooperative formation plan for the next 25 years to expand business.
The Minister said there were many opportunities in the sector before students, who were today stepping out of these institutes with degrees.
“We will very soon set up a university for cooperative management courses...It will be a national university with its colleges situated in States affiliating themselves with this university,” Mr. Shah said.
The minister is currently on a two-day visit to Maharashtra, his first visit after becoming the union co-operative minister. He attended the co-operative rally at Pravaranagar (Loni) in Ahmednagar from where India’s first co-operative sugar mill started.
On behalf of the Maharashtra co-operative sector, Maharashtra co-operative banks administrator Vidyadhar Anaskar presented various demands of co-operative banks before Shah.
“As union government is planning to set up a university for the co-operative sector, it should come up at Pune considering the base of the co-operative sector around it. We have even requested the minister to set up a university at the Vaikunth Bhai Mehta campus which works in the cooperative field,” said Anaskar
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