Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, today unveiled the National Cooperative Policy – 2025, marking a landmark step toward realising Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of Sahkar Se Samriddhi (Prosperity through Cooperation).
The policy, crafted by a 40-member expert committee led by Shri Suresh Prabhu, is both visionary and outcome-driven. It focuses on rural empowerment, inclusive economic development, and sectoral expansion.
Among its key objectives:
- Establish at least one cooperative society in every village
- Tripling the cooperative sector’s contribution to India’s GDP by 2034
- Bringing 50 crore active members into the cooperative fold
- Creating employment by setting up five model cooperative villages per tehsil
- Expanding cooperatives into tourism, insurance, taxi services, and green energy
Amit Shah highlighted that the policy reinforces cooperation as central to India’s growth story. “There was a time people said cooperation had no future. Now, the future belongs to cooperation,” he declared.
Technology-led transparency, model PACS, grassroots digitisation, and enhanced participation from women, Dalits, tribals, and youth form the policy’s backbone. With interventions across 83 points—58 already completed—the Ministry of Cooperation aims to create a sustainable, competitive, and inclusive cooperative ecosystem by 2047.
