Amidst charges of the NDA govt not being serious about the 97th CAA presently lost in the maze of cases in the Supreme Court, the apex body of cooperatives NCUI has decided to plunge headlong into the matter. The apex body is meeting lawyers, ministry officials and others for quick resolution to the legal tangle.
Indian Cooperative talked to several cooperators who accuse the NDA government of not taking the matter as seriously as it should. They ask why the case has not yet been listed even when lawyer like Mukul Rastogi representing the government. They have welcomed the NCUI move and hope its counsel will pursue the matter in right earnest.
A few cooperators said since Sharad Pawar fathered the idea which the present dispension is merely paying lip-service to.
Tired of any substantial progress in the matter the apex body has petitioned the Supreme Court to allow it to be a co-petitioner.
Talking to Indian Cooperative the NCUI President said ” we have also requested the government to allow us to act as a co-petitioner in the case. I do not think government has any reservation on the issue”, he added.
Indian Cooperative has learnt President Chandra Pal Singh Yadav had deputed former Chief Executive Dr Dinesh for the job. Dinesh had met the Central Registrar Mr Ashish Bhutani seeking his support in the matter. He also wanted to have copies of all the applications submitted in the apex court so far.
It is sad the report of the NDA govt. stalling the ambitious 97th Constitutional Amendment is true. The Act has power of making cooperative a transparent enterprise. The Act would also free co-operatives of charges –malicious or genuine leveled against them from time to time.
It will be in fitness of thing that the Apex Court direct the Central Government to prepare and present a report as to the extent the changes in State Cooperative Laws of the States envisaged by Parliament under 9th CAA have been carried and also a road map to address the deficiencies known to every State. In fact NCUI should sponsor a research project under its own supervisory net work. After all Cooperatives should help themselves.
As a matter of fact the previous regime in Maha Government over which Sharad Pawar (who fathered the idea of 97CAA) was having a tremendous clout had got legislature amended MCS Act 1960 with several provisions dramatically opposed to the spirit of 97 CAA. Example : Intervention of Politician’s and Bureaucrates.