Co-operatives are backbone of rural India: Karnataka Chief Minister

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah said that Jawaharlal Nehru’s imaginativeness and encouragement for the co-operative assemblage played an important relation successful the advancement of agrarian India.

Launching the 72nd All India Co-operative Week connected November 14 and presenting the Sahakara Ratna awards to achievers successful the sector, helium emphasised that the co-operative question has go the economical backbone for millions of families crossed the country.

Highlighting Karnataka’s long-standing enactment successful the co-operative space, the Chief Minister stated that Asia’s archetypal co-operative slope was established successful the State. “This is wherefore Karnataka is often called the co-operative superior of India,” helium remarked.

Mr. Siddaramaiah recalled Nehru’s content that a colony could make lone erstwhile it had a school, a co-operative society, and a hospital. “Both Nehru and Mahatma Gandhi strengthened the co-operative question with this vision,” helium said.

The Chief Minister praised the occurrence of Karnataka’s beverage co-operatives, noting that the State records an yearly turnover of ₹25,000 crore and produces 1 crore litres of beverage each day. The co-operative model, helium said, has enabled farmers to proviso beverage straight to producers’ unions, eliminating middlemen and ensuring amended income.

“Co-operatives person brought vitality not lone to agriculture but to respective different sectors arsenic well,” helium said, adding that the question has uplifted countless agrarian families.

Mr. Siddaramaiah besides reiterated his government’s committedness to supporting dairy farmers. “During my erstwhile word arsenic Chief Minister, I accrued the beverage inducement to ₹3 per litre. Now we person raised it to ₹5 per litre. Every day, the authorities provides a subsidy of ₹5 crore straight to farmers’ slope accounts,” helium said. This benefits astir 40 lakh farmers crossed Karnataka, helium added, crediting the Karnataka Milk Federation for playing a relation successful this achievement.