Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah is scheduled to visit the Nafed headquarters in Delhi on 24th August 2023. He is scheduled to interact with the board members of the agri cooperative. The information was shared by one of the officials with the Indian Cooperative on condition of anonymity.
The official said, “The visit of the Union Cooperation Minister at the Nafed headquarters is confirmed now. He will visit the office for the first time after becoming the cooperation minister”.
It is worth mentioning that Nafed and NCCF are taking the lead from the front in stabilizing the prices of red onion and selling them to the customers at reduced prices through their mobile vans. They are selling onions at a subsidized rate of Rs 25kg to consumers. Earlier, they helped in stabilizing the prices of tomatoes.
“Shah is a very proactive minister who loses no chance of visiting co-op institutions. He visited the Kribhco headquarters in Noida last week and earlier Shah had gone all the way to the IFFCO headquarters to launch Nano DAP”, said a ministry official who did not wish to be named.
Whenever the Minister visits a state for any political reason or for matters related to the Home Ministry, he asks his officials to find some co-op institutions where he can go. His visit to Nandini in Karnataka had touched off a huge debate in the run up to the state assembly elections.
People privy to the way Shah goes about doing things confided to the Indian Cooperative that the Minister has a holistic idea of how to strengthen the co-op movement and tries to enlist the support of all co-ops– big or small.
They quoted the example of Shah’s recent visit to Kribhco where he entrusted the Kribhco team with the job of handholding 1000 weaker co-ops and forming 200 Primary Co-ops every year.
His visit to the IFFCO headquarters was for the launching of the Nano DAP but he also assigned the IFFCO team with the job of strengthening co-ops at the grassroots level. He has also involved all the big co-op bodies-IFFCO, Kribhco, Nafed, GCMMF, NCCF and NDDB along with NCDC to spearhead three national level multistate co-op bodies on seed organic and export.
In a bid to reach out to co-operators across states, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah had also visited the NCUI headquarters and interacted with the members of the Governing Council of the apex body hailing from various states across the nation.
Talking to the Indian Cooperative, NCUI President Dileep Sanghani who had a chance to work with Shah in Gujarat Cabinet in the past says, “Amitbhai works in a mission mode and he will not rest until he completes whatever he undertakes”.
The Indian Cooperative is of the view that it augurs well for the cooperative movement of the country. From a joint secretary (who used to oversee co-ops in the past) to such a hard task master as Amit Shah—the shift is laudable and co-ops in India cannot ask more from the present govt.
