Cooperative education is essential for the success of cooperatives. Cooperative education brings awareness about cooperative functioning, their roles, duties and responsibilities and the requirement of the members' active participation to develop cooperatives.
There are about 97,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) in the country. The Junior Cooperative Training Centres (JCTCs) which are 109 at present and State Cooperative Unions, provide education and training to the members and functionaries of PACS. JCTCs are under the administrative control of the State Governments. However, National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) which is an apex body representing the entire cooperative organizations in the country with the mandate of organizing cooperative education and training programmes, extends financial assistance to share the cost of such programmes being conducted by JCTCs. NCUI also spreads cooperative education through its Education Center in Delhi and 43 cooperative education Field Projects spread over whole of India particularly in cooperatively under-developed States. Through these Cooperative education field projects, different modules of cooperative education are delivered to the primary agricultural societies which form the backbone of the cooperative movement in India.
Whenever National Cooperative Union of India conducts any programme, due care is taken to ensure that the programmes do not affect the sowing or harvesting operations of the participants.
This information was given today by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Shri Mohanbhai Kundaria in the Lok Sabha.
GG: SB:CP : education (lok) 23.12.2014
There are about 97,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) in the country. The Junior Cooperative Training Centres (JCTCs) which are 109 at present and State Cooperative Unions, provide education and training to the members and functionaries of PACS. JCTCs are under the administrative control of the State Governments. However, National Cooperative Union of India (NCUI) which is an apex body representing the entire cooperative organizations in the country with the mandate of organizing cooperative education and training programmes, extends financial assistance to share the cost of such programmes being conducted by JCTCs. NCUI also spreads cooperative education through its Education Center in Delhi and 43 cooperative education Field Projects spread over whole of India particularly in cooperatively under-developed States. Through these Cooperative education field projects, different modules of cooperative education are delivered to the primary agricultural societies which form the backbone of the cooperative movement in India.
Whenever National Cooperative Union of India conducts any programme, due care is taken to ensure that the programmes do not affect the sowing or harvesting operations of the participants.
This information was given today by the Minister of State for Agriculture, Shri Mohanbhai Kundaria in the Lok Sabha.
GG: SB:CP : education (lok) 23.12.2014
