Gujarat based Surat District Cooperative Milk Producers Union (SUMUL) is gearing up to welcome Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah in a gala event to be held on 13th March 2022 at Surat and it is expected that more than 1 lakh people will participate in the event from the cooperative sector.
Sharing the details with Indian Cooperative Sumul Dairy Chairman Mansinhbhai Patel, “Our Union is organizing a mega cooperative conference and it will be the first co-op event in Gujarat after a new ministry of cooperation was created.
“Honorable Cooperation Minister Amit Shah and other leaders including Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patil, State BJP President C R Patil, State Cooperative Minister, NCUI President Dileepbhai Sanghani, and other VIPs have sent their consent to attend the event”, he added.
The event is being sited at the newly built cattle feed factory of Sumul Dairy at the border of Tapi and Surat District of Gujarat. More than 1 lakh people from South Gujarat and other areas are expected to participate in the event.
Patel said that the co-op event will be an event of its kind and preparations like the making of big pandals and other things are receiving final touches. We are making all efforts to make the event successful. Patel also lauded the govt for a provision of Rs 900 crore in the Union Budget to fulfill Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of making “Prosperity through Co-ops”.
Though the event was scheduled for 19th February 2022, due to Shah’s engagements in the Uttar Pradesh elections, the event had been postponed.
Earlier, IFFCO in Delhi and Sahakar Bharati in Lucknow had organized mega cooperative conferences in which Union Cooperative Minister Amit Shah participated. The Sumul event would be third in the series though smaller events involving Shah have taken place in between.
Readers would recall that Sumul Dairy had received the first prize in the Food and Processing Segment during a program organized on the occasion of National Energy Conservation Day at Vigyan Bhawan last week.
In the 2020-21 FY, Sumul Dairy had crossed the annual turnover of Rs 4138.77 crore, which is Rs 93.66 crores higher compared to last year i.e. 2019-20.
Meanwhile, opposition leaders have charged that it is less of a co-op event and more of a political one. “This is a bid to reach out to the voters through the cooperatives for the upcoming elections of Gujarat”, they felt. It bears recall that cooperatives have a strong presence at the village levels in Gujarat.
