Chandra Pal Singh Yadav, President of the National Cooperative Union of India played a game-changer in the cooperative seminar, attended by Union Minister Radha Mohan and cooperative honchos from across the nation in N Delhi on Tuesday when he demanded the eligibility criteria for jobs in cooperative organizations must include diploma or degree in cooperative management.
How can the young generation know their value if we do not attach importance to diplomas in cooperative management? They would value when they see that their academic excellence gets them jobs. We are today but what about tomorrow? The legacy of the cooperative movement would be lost if we do not somehow network with the youth, Yadav said emphatically.
NCUI has tied up with a few universities for recognizing our degrees. There are several ICMs run by NCCT which offer both short term and long term diploma. Participants from SAARC countries such as Sri Lanka and Bhutan come here and acquire diplomas from us which are valued in their countries but no here in India, lamented Chandra Pal who is also the chairman of the NCCT.
Talking about the training needs, the NCUI President said there are two ways it can be done. First, we have to train them who are already in cooperatives such as PACS but have no idea of their duties and rights. And secondly we need to train ourselves as it is always touted that cooperatives alone can take on corporate, he concluded.
He also requested the Minister to initiate at least a chapter if not an entire paper in the course materials of class 10th or 12th. ”During my school days we used to learn about cooperatives in schools but today’s curriculum is completely innocent of this”, reminded Yadav.
