Union agriculture minister, Narendra Singh Tomar formally launched Sahakar Pragya the programme in New Delhi on Tuesday. The 45 new training modules of Sahakar Pragya of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) will communicate training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas of the country along with Lakshmanrao Inamdar National Cooperative Research and Development Academy. Sahakar Pragya embodies enhancing NCDC's training capacity through an elaborate network of 18 regional training centres across the country.
On this occasion, Mr. Tomar called upon the cooperative sector to play a role in making the village-poor-farmers Atma Nirbhar. He said, today, India boasts a colossal network of over 8.50 lakh cooperative societies with about 290 million members and nearly 94 percent of the farmers are member of at least one cooperative society.
The Agriculture Minister said that NCDC has come out as a financial power-house of providing the client co-operatives an array of products and services. thus far, it has advanced loans to the tunes of 1.58 lakh crore rupees to co-operative societies of various segments across the country.
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