AHMEDNAGAR/MUMBAI: The Narendra Modi government is with the cooperative movement and its workers, and wants the movement to move forward, but “we will also have to bring in transparency and efficiency and provide space in it to youth with professional backgrounds”, Union home minister Amit Shah said at a conference of the cooperation sector at Pravaranagar in Maharashtra‘s Ahmednagar on Saturday.
Attacking the MVA government in the state, he said problems of cooperative societies from the state were being brought to the Centre to be resolved. “I’m not here to disrupt but to join the missing links. I’ve come not to break anything in the cooperative movement, but to add to it, but the state government should also rise above politics and look after cooperatives,” he said.
Shah is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra and began his tour on Saturday with a visit to the Sai Baba temple at Shirdi.
Shah said steps were being taken to ease financial problems of cooperative sugar mills involved in ethanol production. “These mills have entered into tripartite agreements with oil marketing firms and escrow accounts are being opened for them. RBI will soon give its endorsement to such escrow accounts for creditworthiness,” he said.
The minister will be in Pune on Sunday.
Attacking the MVA government in the state, he said problems of cooperative societies from the state were being brought to the Centre to be resolved. “I’m not here to disrupt but to join the missing links. I’ve come not to break anything in the cooperative movement, but to add to it, but the state government should also rise above politics and look after cooperatives,” he said.
Shah is on a two-day visit to Maharashtra and began his tour on Saturday with a visit to the Sai Baba temple at Shirdi.
Shah said steps were being taken to ease financial problems of cooperative sugar mills involved in ethanol production. “These mills have entered into tripartite agreements with oil marketing firms and escrow accounts are being opened for them. RBI will soon give its endorsement to such escrow accounts for creditworthiness,” he said.
The minister will be in Pune on Sunday.
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