Pune, Nov. 15 -- Maharashtra, the birthplace of India's cooperative movement, is now emerging as the starting point for a new phase of development in the cooperative sector, union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.
He credited Prime Minister Narendra Modi's government with establishing a separate Ministry of Cooperation at the Centre, claiming that the long-standing demand of farmers for an independent ministry had remained unfulfilled during the Congress regime.
Speaking at a programme in Pune, Shah outlined the Centre's roadmap for strengthening the cooperative sector in Maharashtra and across the country. He said the Modi government had provided the sector with a dedicated platform by establishing a separate minist...