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Best-performing cooperative societies to be honoured: CM

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Press Trust of India Jaipur

One best-performing village cooperative society from each district, one primary cooperative land development bank and one Central cooperative bank will be felicitated, he said.

Speaking at a function on the occasion of International Day of Cooperatives, Gehlot announced allotment of free land to cooperative societies of milk production.

He said the government had taken several steps to strengthen the cooperative movement.

New cooperatives societies were formed in the state after 30 years and interest-free crop loans worth Rs 10,000 crore were being provided to farmers this year, Gehlot said.

The state co-operative minister Parsadi Lal Meena was among those present at the function.

 

  

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First Published: Jul 07 2012 | 7:35 PM IST

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