Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said that the Prime Minister has tried to keep India at the forefront of the world in every field, whether it is about protecting the country or giving impetus to the country’s economy.
He inaugurated and laid the foundation stone of various schemes of Sumul Dairy in Surat, Gujarat. Whether it is to bring radical change through a new education policy, to make small businesses of the country prosper, to make self-help groups and every citizen prosperous, or to establish the youth of the country on the world stage, he added.
He said that our goal is to strengthen the cooperative movement for workers of all cooperatives and make it the strongest cooperative movement in the world in the 100th year of Independence.
Amit Shah pointed out that the journey of Sumul, which started 71 years ago, beganwith 200 litres to 20 lakh litres today, in which milk producing tribal men and women have greatly contributed.
Today, he appreciated that due to the hard work and dedication of tribal women, milk worth Rs. 7 crore is sold daily and arrangements have been made to transfer Rs. 7 crore directly to the bank accounts of 2.5 lakh members.
Who can imagine that every day money is deposited in the bank account of a tribal women who cultivates one to two acres of land. This is the miracle of the cooperative principle, the miracle of the cooperative movement, he added.
He felt that it is a miracle of a cooperative system that has been created in Gujarat and under the aegis of Amul, by the effort and might of Shri Tribhuvan Patel.
Amit Shah said that in the 75th year of independence of the country, Prime Minister Narendra Modi has established the Ministry of Cooperation. The Prime Minister had said in 2014 that 2022 would be the 75th anniversary of Independence and we have to move forward with the goal of doubling farmers’ income by 2022.
“Today I am proud to say that the Prime Minister has done a lot in that direction. To make agriculture self-reliant, the government led by the Prime Minister, Namenda Modi sends Rs. 6,000 directly to the bank accounts of 13 crore farmers every year from Delhi and is trying to make farmers self-reliant”, he added.
The Ministry of Cooperation has set up several primary agricultural societies, milk producers unions, APMCs, fishermen’s brothers’ unions, trade unions, and small industrial unions working in the cooperative sector. Narendra Modi has worked to strengthen the cooperative movement by establishing the Ministry of Cooperation.
“To the men and women associated with the cooperative movement and to all the people sitting here, I want to say that Modi has decided to form the Ministry of Cooperation, so let us thank him with thunderous applause, he added.
