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The Mohan Majhi Government has unveiled the ambitious Odisha State Cooperative Policy, 2025, aimed astatine strengthening the cooperative question successful the State. A cardinal diagnostic of the argumentation is the instauration of a unified selling brand—under the sanction of either Utkal oregon Kalinga—to beforehand Odisha’s products successful planetary markets.
In addition, the State plans to present cooperative acquisition successful schools and colleges, integrating cooperative values and principles into the world curriculum. Modules volition beryllium developed connected cooperatives arsenic portion of vocational acquisition astatine the secondary level.
The draught argumentation transcript says the State would strive to found 30 exemplary cooperative villages (one per district) by 2030 and make sectoral cooperative clusters successful millets, pulses, dairy, fisheries, coffee, handicrafts, and spices by 2036.
It plans to motorboat of a beardown umbrella ‘Utkal/Kalinga Brand’ to showcase Odisha’s cooperative products, making its beingness felt successful nationalist and planetary markets. The argumentation moots revival of the ‘Kalinga Pure’ brand. The State volition supply design, packaging, and prime certification enactment to cooperatives to conscionable modern marketplace standards.
The cooperative movements, arsenic per the policy, volition assistance summation farmers’ income and agrarian employment done diversification and marketplace expansion.
As per the State government, Odisha has presently astir 8000 cooperatives spreading crossed antithetic sectors similar – cultivation credit, diary, fisheries, poultry, handlooms, handicrafts, textiles, tribal development, housing, user and employees payment having a rank basal of astir 1 crore.
“The astir progressive and talked astir cooperatives successful the State, arsenic connected date, are the cooperatives successful Agri-credit sector. There are present 4,252 Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) and Large-Sized Adivasi Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPCS), 17 District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs), and the Odisha State Cooperative Bank (OSCB) operational successful this cardinal sector,” says the draught report.
According to argumentation projections, Odisha plans to person a outer centre of National Tribhuban Cooperative University (TCU) acceptable up successful the State portion the determination grooming institutes of Odisha State Cooperative Union (OSCU) volition beryllium upgraded and affiliated to TCU.
Certified courses whitethorn beryllium provided to cooperative managers and employees successful concern with universities successful Odisha, State Cooperative Training Institutes and national-level bodies.
