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NATION | Sahkarita
Foundation for the country’s first Sahkari University laid
Sahkar for Building
A BETTER FUTURE
India is a country where ooperatives are people-centric societies that
unprecedented development are owned, controlled, and operated by their
is taking place in the fields, C members. They do this to fulfill their common
economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations.
villages, and cities. Cooperation Cooperatives, which had a humble beginning before
is a silent but powerful medium independence, have today taken the form of a mass
of this development. Be it giving movement with a network of 8.42 lakh cooperative
a fair price to the farmer or societies across India in which every fourth citizen of the
empowering women and small country is associated. At the same time, there are 30 lakh
entrepreneurs, cooperatives in cooperatives at the global level. The global importance
of cooperatives can be gauged from the fact that the
India are weaving the fabric of United Nations has declared 2025 the International Year
inclusive development of welfare of Cooperatives. To further strengthen the cooperatives
of the poor along with economic, in the country, on July 5, Union Home and Cooperation
human, and environmental Minister Amit Shah performed the Bhoomi Pujan of the
prosperity. To further strengthen country’s first Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Anand,
Gujarat. It will be built on 125 acres for Rs 500 crore.
the cooperatives, Union Home and Prime Minister Narendra Modi established the Minis-
Cooperation Minister Amit Shah try of Cooperation 4 years ago to make millions of poor
laid the foundation stone of the and villagers of the country economically prosperous by
country’s first Sahkari university instilling hope in their lives. In the program organized
in Anand, Gujarat, on July 5... for laying the foundation stone of the University, Union
Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that
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