Agriculture Minister Radha Mohan Singh announced that a national award would be instituted in the name of Prime Minister Narendra Modis mentor and RSS leader late Laxmanrao Inamdar to recognise contributions and public service rendered by cooperatives in the country.
On Inamdar’s birth day every year Singh said the national cooperative award will be given to a primary agriculture cooperative society in every state, to the best district cooperative bank of five states and the state cooperative bank, while speaking in a function at NDMC Auditorium in Delhi to celebrate the centenary celebrations of Inamdar.
Late Laxmanrao Ji stood for dedicated leadership in the cooperative sector and this award is aimed at promoting this, Singh said amidst thunderous applause. He not only set up Sahakar Bharati but also helped it grow with his sweat and blood all through his life, said Singh.
The minister said four additional development projects have been launched to bring women in cooperatives in four cooperative developed states — Shimoga (Karnataka), Aska Berhamapur (Orissa), Imphal (Manipur) and Bhopal (Madhya Pradesh). More than Rs 100 crores have been given to them and you would see the result soon, he underlined.
He added 20 ICMs and five Regional ICMS are going to fulfill the dream of creating an able cooperative leadership as envisaged by Late Inamdar. He however failed to explain how the ICMs that have been chronic failures in the past would succeed now.