NCUI President Dr Chandra Pal Singh Yadav singled out Gujarat cooperatively as the most developed state in the country in a media interaction on Thursday in Delhi.
People of Gujarat have cooperative flowing through their veins, Yadav said in reply to a specific question from a media person. They seek help of cooperatives at each stage of their life. Farmers of the state buy seed, fertilzer and other inputs from cooperative societies. Even for irrigation they have developed cooperatives from which they get water at a much reasonable rate compared to private vendors.
Once their produce is ready they also sell it through cooperative thereby fetching good prices in the process. They know the true value of cooperative and have collectively proved that any other model of economic activities has no chance before a true a cooperative.
They sell milk to cooperatives and also buy back processed stuff from cooperatives, Yadav said while enumerating the successful management of Amul. Government interference is also minimal here with shareholders calling the shots and doing what would benefit them in the ultimate analysis, he added.
But Chandra Pal was at pains to explain the poor state of affairs in cooperatives of his home state Uttar Pradesh. He blamed the lack of professional management behind this but applauded the Akhilesh govt for waiving off loans to the tune of Rs 1600 crores to the farmers.
Not only Uttar Pradesh every other state has to learn the art of successful management of cooperative affairs. “The role of NCUI’s training programmes assumes significance here”, Chandra Pal did not miss to underline.