Cooperative model best suited for development of India having 130 cr population: Amit Shah

The cooperative model is the only model of economic development which will work to achieve an all-encompassing and all-inclusive development of a huge country like India with a population of 130 crore, Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Addressing a gathering here after inaugurating a milk powder factory, a poly film manufacturing plant and other projects of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) set up with an investment of ₹ 415 crore, Mr. Shah said the cooperative model has the capacity to make everyone prosperous, and there is a need to increase the number of successful cooperative models (like Amul) and bring them under one umbrella.

He also suggested Amul to work out a similar model for organic farming so as to encourage more farmers to adopt the practice, as fertilisers were causing soil degradation and diseases like cancer.