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Daijiworld Media Network - Mangalore
Mangalore, Jun 7: The National Organizing Committee meeting (Rashtriya Sanghatan Samithi Baitak) of Sahakar Bharati will be held on June 7 and 8 at the conference hall of the CAMPCO head office, Mission Street here.
"Delegates from all the zones of the country will take part in the meet," said Satish Marathe, the national president of Sahakar Bharati.
He said, "Sahakar Bharati was started on January 11, 1979 and is the largest co-operative NGO in the country. We operate in all the 29 states and our branches are spread across 400 districts. The main aim of organizing this meet is to strengthen the NGO."
"Apart from spreading the works of Sahakar Bharati, the meeting will mainly decide on the action plan for various topics like scrapping the imposition of income tax on co-operatives as proposed by the UPA government in the Direct Tax Code Bill, withdrawal of the obnoxious amendments proposed in the Multi State Co-operative Act and demand the RBI to introduce the Micro Finance Development and Regulatory Bill which could not be enacted during the entire term of the 15th Lok Sabha," he said.
"Scrapping of the Prakash Bakshi report on the short term credit institutions in the rural areas and the appointment of a new committee to recommend the steps to strengthen PACs, to appoint a committee to formulate the norms for promoting the public co-operative partnership model particularly in service sectors like transport, water, electricity, health etc and many other things to be discussed in the meeting," he added.
Konkodi Padmanabh, the vice-president of Sahakar Bharati and the president of CAMPCO said, "Both the national and the state problems will be discussed in the meeting, like the timely release of 1% from the government on the waiver of loan to PACs or to credit the same to their individual account."
He said, "We will demand scrapping of amendments to Souharda Act which has reduced the autonomy of the co-operatives, to increase handling charges for co-operative dealing in PDS, to implement Vaidyanathan Committee recommendation regarding the long term credit institution."
"The Kerala State Amended Co-operative Act is under the political clutches and hence needs to be scrapped. We will recommend the government of Kerala to introduce an Autonomous Co-operative Act," he added.