A busy man otherwise with a long list of obligations from cooperative to electoral politics, NCUI President Chandra Pal Singh Yadav has sought a meeting with the Telangana Chief Minister on the issue of the Telangana cooperative act said to be draconian in nature.
Chandra Pal was approached by G.Rama Moorthy, President of Telangana & Andhra Pradesh Multi State Cooperative Urban Banks Federations ( TS& AP MSCUB Fed). Moorthy wrote a letter to NCUI seeking its support in his fight against the new Telengana Co-op Act adopted in the wake of division of the state.
On 20th May 2016 the Government of Telangana adopted the Andhra Pradesh Cooperative Societies Act, 1964 with some drastic changes in the Telangana Cooperative Societies Act. Some of the provisions in the new Act are against democratic and cooperative principles, says Moorthy.
NCUI has also written a letter to the Chief Minister drawing his attention to the concerns of state cooperative leaders.
Later a delegation of the Federation called on the Minister for Cooperation, Government of Telangana and brought to his notice certain harsh provisions of the Act and requested him to modify the Act and make it friendly to the cooperative sector. Despite a patient hearing given by the minister, nothing concrete has happened so far, lamented Moorthy on the phone to Indian Cooperative.
The new Telangana Cooperative Societies Act is against the spirit of the 97th Constitutional Amendment which was aimed at promoting voluntary formation, autonomous functioning, democratic control and professional management of cooperative societies, he added.