New Delhi [India], July 24 (ANI): Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah unveiled the National Cooperative Policy 2025 at the Atal Akshay Urja Bhawan on Thursday, emphasizing the government’s commitment to establishing at least one cooperative in every village across the country.
The new policy is designed to strengthen grassroots cooperative units and promote inclusive growth, particularly benefiting farmers, women, Dalits, tribal communities, and rural populations.
Speaking at the launch event, Shah stated, “In 2002, the Government of India introduced the Cooperative Policy. At that time, the BJP was in power. Now, the second Cooperative Policy has again been brought forward by the BJP government. We are moving ahead with the goal to have at least one cooperative in every village.”
He underscored the policy’s foundation on a developmental model rooted in India’s realities, saying, “The government’s vision, which understands India and the factors essential to its progress, is the only one that can prioritize the cooperative sector. If the basic unit of the country and the economy is prosperous, employed, and satisfied, then that economic model can never fail.”
Shah highlighted the policy’s people-centric vision, stating, “While framing the cooperative policy, care was taken to ensure its core focus remains on people, villages, agriculture, rural women, Dalits, and tribals. In one sentence, its vision is to make India developed by 2047 through the prosperity of cooperation.”
He added that the mission is to “develop professional, transparent, technically capable, responsible, financially independent, and successful small cooperative units.”
According to the Ministry of Cooperation, the National Cooperative Policy 2025 aims to modernize and rejuvenate the cooperative sector. It outlines a grassroots roadmap to realize the vision of “prosperity through cooperation.”
India’s first National Cooperative Policy was introduced in 2002 to provide a framework for improved economic management within cooperative institutions. However, the Ministry noted that significant global, societal, and technological changes over the past two decades made a new policy essential.
“In the last 20 years, many major changes have taken place in society, the country, and the world due to globalization and technological advancement. Keeping these changes in mind, it became necessary to formulate a new policy so that cooperative institutions can be made more active and useful in the current economic scenario and the role of the cooperative sector can be strengthened in achieving the goal of Viksit Bharat 2047,” the Ministry stated.
The policy’s primary objective is to make cooperative institutions more inclusive and professionally managed, preparing them for future challenges and enabling them to generate large-scale employment and livelihood opportunities, especially in rural India.
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