Prime Minister Narendra Modi connected Monday inaugurated the ICA Global Cooperative Conference 2024 and launched the UN International Year of Cooperatives 2025, saying that the league volition supply insights into India’s aboriginal cooperative journey.
Speaking connected the occasion, PM Modi said, “Global league of the International Cooperative Alliance is being organised for the archetypal clip successful India. In India, we are expanding the cooperative movement. I americium convinced we volition get insights into India’s aboriginal cooperative travel done this conference. Besides, done the experiences of India, the Global Cooperative question volition get tools of the 21st period and a caller spirit.”
PM Modi said that the cooperative question is witnessing an enlargement successful India. “For the world, cooperative is simply a model, but for India, it is the instauration of civilization and it is simply a lifestyle,” helium added.
Highlighting achievements successful the cooperative sector, Modi said that India has implicit 8 lakh cooperatives, and 98 per cent of agrarian areas are covered by them. About 300 cardinal radical are associated with cooperatives successful India, helium said.
PM Modi observed that India believes cooperatives tin supply caller vigor to planetary cooperation, peculiarly to the Global South.
The ICA Global Cooperative Conference and ICA General Assembly are being organised successful India for the archetypal clip successful the 130-year past of the International Cooperative Alliance (ICA), the premier assemblage for the planetary cooperative movement.
Speaking connected the occasion, Bhutan’s Prime Minister Dasho Tshering Tobgay said cooperatives bring prosperity for each and physique a amended society. “There are 129 cooperatives and 722 farmers groups, comprising 17,000 members, successful Bhutan. Our acquisition has been positive…,” helium said. Tobgay added that Bhutan is gathering a caller city, Gelephu, spreading implicit 2500 sq km on India’s border. It is an illustration of a cooperative, helium said.
Fiji’s Deputy Prime Minister Manoa Kamikamica said the cooperative question successful Fiji started successful 1940. There are 650 cooperatives crossed 15 sectors successful Fiji, Kamikamica said, adding that the cooperatives are pathways retired of poverty.
Speaking connected the occasion, Minister of Home and Cooperation Amit Shah highlighted initiatives taken by the government, including the enactment of the caller ministry, during the past 3 years. “The Centre plans to found a cooperative assemblage and it besides plans to unveil caller cooperative argumentation during the existent Cooperative Year (April 2024-March 2025),” Shah said.
The league is being hosted by the Indian Farmers’ Fertiliser Cooperative Limited (IFFCO), successful collaboration with ICA and the Government of India, and Indian Cooperatives AMUL and KRIBHCO, and volition beryllium held from November 25 to 30. The taxable of the league is ‘Cooperatives Build Prosperity for All’.
The five-day lawsuit volition diagnostic discussions, sheet sessions, and workshops, addressing the challenges and opportunities faced by cooperatives worldwide successful achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), peculiarly successful areas specified arsenic poorness alleviation, sex equality, and sustainable economical growth.
On the occasion, PM Modi besides launched a commemorative postal stamp, symbolising India’s committedness to the cooperative movement. “The stamp showcases a lotus, symbolising peace, strength, resilience, and growth, reflecting the cooperative values of sustainability and assemblage development. The 5 petals of the lotus correspond the 5 elements of quality (panchatatva), highlighting cooperatives’ committedness to environmental, social, and economical sustainability. The plan besides incorporates sectors similar agriculture, dairy, fisheries, user cooperatives, and housing, with a drone symbolising the relation of modern exertion successful agriculture,” according to an authoritative statement.