Drafting of new cooperative policy in the process: Centre

The one-day webinar on the budget proposals for 2022-23 was inaugurated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi. During the webinar, issues like digitisation of primary agricultural credit co-operative societies, scheme for creation of national database of co-operative societies, cooperative education and training scheme, co-operative credit guarantee fund, cooperative to prosperity scheme and national co-operation policy were discussed.

“Many important suggestions were given by various organisations and state governments, such as formulation of user-oriented database sharing and accessibility policy, establishment of VAMNICOM, Pune, as an autonomous institution of national importance for facilitating credit flow at the grassroots level,” the statement read.