Cooperative university will be established soon-Amit Shah

Union Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation  Amit Shah has  announced that a National level co-operative university will soon be established in the country to further expand the co-operative sector. He was speaking at the Convocation ceremony of Vaikuntha Mehta National Cooperative Management Institute in Pune, Maharashtra on Sunday.  Emphasizing the need for expansion of the Co-operative sector in the villages, Shah said, this sector has made significant contributions in the development of the country since the pre-independence period. He said, a co-operative sector policy is being formulated under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to promote the co-operative movement which will be implemented across the country soon.  He  said the Centre will come up with various measures to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country aiming to set up a transparent system for agriculture finance.     
The book titled 'Sahakar Sandarbha' was released by Shah at this event. On this occasion, he said, the country's Primary Agriculture Society will be modernised and linked to District & State Co-operative Banks, which will further be linked to NABARD. This will help to boost the cooperative sector in the country. He also inaugurated a statue of Dr. Babasaheb Ambedkar inside the extended new building of Pune Municipal Corporation and laid the foundation stone of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Smarak in the campus of the Pune Corporation.  He assured that the Central government is committed to the development of Pune.