India, July 6 -- Five years ago, on the 6th of July, the country gained something it had waited three-quarters of a century for. A sector woven into the daily lives of crores of farmers, dairy producers and rural families, and yet without a home of its own since Independence, finally received a dedicated Ministry of Cooperation. That was Prime Minister Narendra Modi's answer to a long-standing gap, and he placed the new Ministry in the hands of Amitbhai Shah, our resolute Home Minister, whose four decades in the movement run the full length of it, from the village PACS to the apex bank. Under the mantra of Sahkar se Samriddhi, prosperity through cooperation, the journey that began that day has today reached a defining moment of renewed pu...