New batches of Certificate & Diploma of Proficiency Cooperative Management were started online by NCCE on 24-25 March, 2021, in which about 53 students of both the courses attended the classes.
It bears recall that the NCCE of NCUI is running two courses since 2014 namely, Certificate in Cooperative Management (one year) and Diploma of Proficiency in Cooperative Management exclusively for women students of Bhagat Phool Singh Sonipat, Haryana.
The subjects to be covered are Environment for Cooperatives, Cooperative Management, Cooperative Credit, Banking & Non Credit Cooperatives, Research Methodology & Project Preparation.
Subjects like Cooperative Audit, Accounts & MIS, Cooperative Project Planning formulation & Implementation, Cooperative Law, Role of Cooperative in Agriculture & Rural Development are also covered during the course, informs a press release from the national apex body.
These courses are add-on courses and students studying in graduation & post-graduation, engineering, management courses may join these courses. 30 seats for each course are available in the university.
As per the MoU signed with the Haryana university the NCCE of NCUI has designed schemes, syllabus, methodology of courses, prepared the study materials and provided faculty support to complete the curriculum and setting of question papers and assisted evaluation of examination books.
The NCUI has also trained the faculty members of the university so that after sometime they can run the courses independently.
Earlier, in Madhya Pradesh, considering the need of capacity building for FPOs, the NCUI had taken initiative and commenced training programs for FPOs. This was the first in the series as NCUI had plans to train as many FPOs as possible, declared NCCE Director V K Dubey.
It bears recall that the Govt of India is promoting 10000 FPOs to increase the productivity of farmers. The prime focus of FPOs to establish enterprises to increase farm production, procurement, marketing, providing services to farmers and processing for value addition.
These enterprises must be managed professionally in accordance with the govt. norms & rules. Hence, the personnel and management board must be trained for proper running of the FPOs, reads a press release sent by the NCCE.