Bhubaneswar, Jan. 19 -- All India Kisan Congress National Coordinator and President of the Odisha Pradesh Congress Committee Cooperative Cell, Amiya Kumar Patnaik, on Monday alleged that cooperative institutions in Odisha are steadily moving toward bankruptcy.
Patnaik said that during the last 25 years of BJD rule and under the present BJP government, cooperative institutions have turned into centres of large-scale corruption, while the legitimate demands of cooperative employees continue to be ignored.
He alleged that cooperative-based oil mills, spinning mills and sugar mills have become defunct, and Regulated Market Committees (RMCs) are failing to function effectively for farmers.
The Congress leader also pointed out the acute shorta...