Indian cooperative.com wishes a very very prosperous and fulfilling year to its readers. The news portal, only of its kind in India ,meanwhile has attracted readers traffic , even unexpected by the editorial and technical team during 2010.
Starting just in the month of January, 2010, the hits to the Portal was a meagre 14421 heats. But the roller coaster journey which the Portal took had many bumps. Came NCUI election followed by Kribhco election and then the NAFED scam-there were more on the plate for us than we could have handled. Amul saga with the ouster of BM Vyas was another issue with charged emotion.
We were suspected and even threatened by those who did not find the reporting favourable to them. But we stood our ground and remained truthful to our ideals of strengthening cooperative movement and movement alone. We supported them who supported the movement in real sense.
And the result was phenomenal. By the end of the year there were nearly two crore hits!
The journey, however was not easy. The cooperative sector is one field which despite being crucial to the uplift of rural India gets no attention of media. A small effort by our team had terrific response as people connected to this sector are hungry for the news.
By the end of the year, believe it or not, we have collected nearly twenty lakhs (1900722). These are all Google data which can be verified by any one.
More important than the swelling figure of readers is to find the answer to the question as to why are people so hungry for cooperative news.
Cooperatives have mostly been shrouded in secrecy and shun media attention. Even now some of the top multi state cooperatives are fighting the imposition of RTI in court.
An average member of cooperative society is faceless as well as powerless. We have tried to give them voice though in a very insufficient manner. But hope is alive and in the year 2011 we will aim at empowering them more and more. Our Hindi Cooperative portal Bhartiya Sahkarita.com will play greater role in this.