Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah released a book on ‘Collective Prosperity: The Legacy of Indian Cooperatives’ during a glittering function organized in New Delhi on Wednesday.
Shah urged the national level cooperative societies’ representatives and others present on this occasion to make the effort to distribute the Indian language translation of the book among the Primary Agriculture Credit Societies (PACS). IFFCO, Kribhco, Nafed, Amul and other National Level Cooperative should come forward to help in distributing copies to the PACS.
“The English version has already been prepared and the book is being translated into other Indian languages. This book will prove to be very useful in instilling confidence into the entire cooperative sector”, said Shah.
The book is prepared by Vamnicom. The book shares inspiring stories of 75 Indian cooperative societies that have grown over the 75 years of India’s independence. In this book, the best practices of successful cooperative societies from 19 different states and union territories of the country have been documented and illustrated in story form. The book tells the story of the Cooperative Movement of India.
The volume-1 is a maiden effort in storytelling and portraying a diverse range of Indian cooperatives, ranging from local enterprises to global giants, as social instruments of development.
Reacting to this, Vamnicom Director Hema Yadav, who played an important role in the preparation of the book said, “In order to realise the vision “Sahakar se Samriddhi” envisaged by our Hon’ble Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi this book is amongst several initiatives taken by the newly formed Ministry of Cooperation”.
“This book will prove to be a better medium to strengthen the cooperative movement and make it reach the common people, an initiative taken by the Ministry of Cooperation”, she said who was also present during the launching of the book.
Yadav added, “This book, a compilation of inspiring stories of cooperative societies in simple language and in the form of an illustrated coffee table book, has been prepared by Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management under the guidance of the Ministry of Cooperatives and published by Harper Vantage Publications”.
