Mr G C Gupta has taken over as new Managing Director of NCCF replacing Mr R K Srivastava, an IAS officer of Jharkhand cadre. Mr Gupta comes from NCDC and is an old hand at cooperative matters.
It is said that affairs at NCCF is in complete mess and Mr Srivastava was desperate to get away as soon as possible.Even otherwise it is election season in NCCF and politicians will try to influence the MD. Now it is up to Mr Gupta as to how does he handle it. Indian cooperative is trying to find out the road map of recovery, new MD is planning for the revival of NCCF.
The National Cooperative Consumers’ Federation of India Limited (NCCF) is the apex Federation of the consumer cooperatives in the country. NCCF was set up on 16 October, 1965 and is administered under the Multi State Cooperative Societies Act 2002. The present membership of the NCCF is 136 comprising of Primary Co-op. Stores, Wholesale Societies, State level Consumer Cooperative Federations, National Cooperative Development Corporation and the Government of India.