The NCCE of NCUI organized a 3-day online Leadership Development Program, 2020 for the Labour cooperatives through Webex meetings.
Given the inability of labour co-ops to take off in real terms of the word, such training will go a long way. The LDP was conducted with the support of National Labour Cooperative Federation of India—the apex body labour co-op societies and unions engaged in development of labour and workers cooperatives in India.
The LDP was attended by 35 participants who mostly came from Rajasthan and Maharashtra. The latter boasts the strongest labour co-op movement in the country.
The objective was to orient participants on the Cooperative Values and Principles, Cooperative Management and its legal norms and Economy Revival Packages for the labour cooperatives in the post COVID era, said a press release sent by NCUI.
The LDP training program was stimulatory and informative to improve the effective management of labour co-ops through capacity building, governance skills build up and professional management skills.
The focus of LDP was also on creating awareness on the Atamnirbhar Bharat schemes, developing professional capabilities, understanding of governance roles, implementation of business development plans & techniques and usefulness of Accounts for improving labour coops.
These training sessions were taken up by the eminent cooperative experts, faculties, professionals. Discussions were focused on how the poor people, casual, low paid and landless workers could be provided with technical and professional capabilities.
There were also discussions about the need to develop proper investment programs and various schemes through an active participation of people, cooperative banks and institutions. One of the speakers underlined the importance of labour coops. redefining their systems and strategies in the changing global scenario.
Some speakers also dealt with how Atamnirbhar Bharat could go a long way in effecting transformation and initiation of welfare measures. Experts also stressed the need for employment generation, social security, food security and health care.
There was also discussion about the social responsibility of cooperatives in the changed context. Most speakers laid emphasis on providing valuable training inputs on the cooperative ideologies and practices of the labour coops.so as to generate internal resources and pooling human efforts for equipping skilled, semiskilled, unskilled labour and ordinary workers with capabilities to develop their reliant economic enterprises.
The participants were all praise for NCCE’s efforts for arranging the LDP that has generated awareness about the integrated efforts of the labour coops. and Government of India for development of labour coops.