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Sahkarita | NATION
First Sahkari University
named after the founder 60 thousand
new PACS will
Chairman of Amul be formed
“Tribhuvan” Sahkari University is named by the end of
after Tribhuvan Das Kishibhai Patel. the year
Tribhuvan Das was the person who, under
the guidance of Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, n It has been
sowed the seeds of a new idea decided to form 2
on the land of Gujarat Anand. lakh new Primary
Fighting the exploitative policy Agricultural
of Polson Dairy, he formed a Credit Societies
small group to collect milk and (PACS) in the
ran a very big campaign. He established the country, out
Gujarat State Cooperative Milk Marketing of which 60
Federation, which is known today as Amul. thousand new
In 1946, the Kheda District Cooperative PACS will be
Milk Producers Union was established, in formed by the
which today 36 lakh sisters do a business of end of this year.
Rs 80 thousand crore.
n There will be 17
It will devise cooperative lakh employees
development strategies in 2 lakh PACS
n The university will work on policy making, alone.
data analysis, and devising 5, 10, and 25- n CBSE has added
year strategies for cooperative development. the subject of
since then, 60 new initiatives n The youth will get to learn the values of co-operation in
the curriculum of
have been taken for the devel- cooperation along with technical expertise, classes 9 to 12.
opment and promotion of the accounting, scientific approach, and marketing.
cooperative sector in India. This
university is an important initia- Co-operation in the country has been going on
tive to fill the gaps that were left since the Vedic period as a sanskar of our society.
in strengthening the cooperative PM Modi is giving new impetus to the cooperative
sector. He said that under the system of the country with the basic mantra of
leadership of Prime Minister ‘Sahkar Se Samriddhi’.
Modi, the cooperative movement - Amit Shah, Union Home & Cooperation Minister
is progressing very fast across
the country. The foundation
stone laying of this university is Home and Cooperation Minister held
a revolutionary step under the dialogue with the cooperatives
leadership of PM Modi. Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah held a dialogue
There is no proper system of with women and other workers associated with the cooperative sector
training for employees of coopera- of Gujarat, Madhya Pradesh, and Rajasthan in Ahmedabad on July
tives and members of cooperatives. 9 on the occasion of the International Day of Cooperatives. During
Hence, after recruitment in cooper- this dialogue, he said that I have decided that whenever I retire, I will
atives, employees are given train- use the rest of my life for the Vedas, Upanishads, and natural farming.
ing, but now, after the formation of Natural farming is a scientific experiment that has many benefits. The
the university, only those who have Union Minister said that the adoption of natural farming in fields has
increased production by about one and a half times.
received training will get jobs. n
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