Union Minister of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare Narendra Singh Tomar unveiled Sahakar Pragya, the 45 new training modules of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) on Tuesday aimed at empowering PACSS and other co-op bodies.
Launched to impart training to primary cooperative societies with Lakshmanrao Inamdar National Cooperative Research and Development Academy (Linac), Sahakar Pragya embodies enhancing NCDC’s training capacity by 18-fold through an elaborate network of 18 Regional Training Centres across the country.
These training modules will address the need for training of Primary cooperatives, FPO-Cooperatives and Self-Help Groups federation, stressed the Minister. The training programmes will be supported under NCDC schemes,10000 FPO formation scheme of Government of India, Agri Infra Fund scheme of Government of India, PM-FME scheme of Min of Food Processing Industry, Dairy Infra Dev Fund scheme of Government of India, Fisheries Infra Dev Fund scheme of Government of India, PM Matsya Sampada Yojana of Government of India, Min of Rural Dev schemes State/UT schemes Other organizations’ schemes.
On this occasion, Tomar called upon the cooperative sector to play a role in making the village-poor-farmers Atma Nirbhar. He said NCDC has emerged as a financial powerhouse giving the client cooperatives a wide range of products and services.
“So far NCDC has advanced loans to the tunes of Rs 1.58 lakh crores to cooperative societies of various categories across the country. Sahakar Pragya is the latest in the series of farmer focused steps by NCDC”, underlined the Minister.
Known for hand-holding cooperatives across the country with funding and project ideas, NCDC has been proactive in delivering innovative solutions for the cooperative sector. In the series of initiatives by NCDC had earlier launched the Sahakar Cooptube NCDC Channel with the aim to involve youth in the cooperative movement.
“Formation of new cooperatives is a prerequisite for bringing new life and dedication in the realm of cooperative movement. NCDC’s guidance videos in different languages covering local requirements of 18 States on Sahakar Cooptube strengthens the major initiative of Government of India to promote and form 10,000 FPOs”, underlined NCDC Managing Director Sundeep Nayak.
Nayak further said “Working with the ideals mooted by Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi for Doubling the Farmers’ Income, Stand Up India and Skilling India, NCDC has earlier launched various initiatives and programmes like SAHAKAR-22 to develop cooperatives in Focus 222 districts, including aspirational districts, Nurturing Primary Level Cooperatives, SAHAKAR MITRA – Scheme on Internship Programme, YUVA SAHAKAR- Start Up Scheme in Cooperatives and AYUSHMAN SAHAKAR- for creation of healthcare infrastructure and services.”
“NCDC has been created for the purpose of planning and promoting programmes for the production, processing, marketing, storage, export and import of agricultural produce, foodstuffs, industrial goods, livestock, certain other commodities and services like hospital & healthcare and education etc. on cooperative principles. It extends financial assistance to cooperatives at all the three tiers, Primary, District and Apex / Multi-State”, read a PIB release.
