In Women’s Chess FIDE World Cup, the final is between Koneru Hampi and Divya Deshmukh.
Vice President of India Jagdeep Dhankar surprised by resigning from his post with immediate effect, citing health reasons. President Droupadi Murmu also did not take time to accept the resignation.
National Cooperative Policy 2025 has been unveiled. Its previous version was in 2002. NCP 2025, prepared by a 48-member committee chaired by Suresh Prabhu, is to make cooperative institutions inclusive, manage them professionally, prepare them for the future, and be able to create large-scale employment and livelihood opportunities, especially in rural India. It reiterates: Cooperativism is a socio-economic system based on collective participation, democratic members’ control and shared benefits, where individuals voluntarily unite/associate to meet their common economic, social, and cultural needs and aspirations. A cooperative can be multipurpose; diversify into various new sectors/areas. They can draw members from multiple states, in addition to operating anywhere and everywhere. They can/have to cooperate amongst themselves. It embodies synergies; champions principles of equity, inclusivity, and welfare. India is already a home to more than one-fourth of the world’s cooperatives – 8 lakh cooperatives – 2 in credit; and 6 in non-credit. 30 crore members are in cooperatives – 13 crore in primary agriculture credit societies. India acknowledges forming cooperative as a fundamental right. Today, minimum alternate tax for cooperatives is now 15%.
NCP 2025, with a 10-year timeframe, builds on ‘Sahkar-se-samriddhi’ and supports ‘viksit Bharat 2047’ vision. It seeks cooperative movement – cooperation as a people’s movement. It seeks autonomy to cooperatives. It seeks multi-dimensional expansion, diversification, inclusion and reach out to every nook and corner of the country.. It seeks accessible and affordable finance to them. It seeks digitization, digital platform(s) for cooperatives. It seeks green cooperatives and greening of cooperatives towards eco-friendliness, circular economy and sustainability. It also seeks professional and youth employment in cooperative enterprises; cooperative education, management-leadership education for professionals; skilling and upskilling for working in cooperatives.
Its visions: Every rural, marginal community family in 1-2 cooperatives. 50 crore people in coops. At least two coops in each GP; one union at district level; one in urban centre; one federation at state level. National apex cooperative bank and more national purposive/thematic sectoral coops. Nationally shared digital, artificial intelligence infra, platforms, cooperative stack. Nationally available support system(s). Model cooperative pilots. Cooperative clusters for niche produce. Cooperative large umbrella brands. White Revolution 2.0. Climate resilient natural food system, products, services, living. Cooperative capacity, education, research, learning apex, network. Cooperation in schools and colleges. Cooperation, cooperative management, leadership et al in higher education across. Cooperative learning facilitation resource pool. Cooperative discourse(s). NCP support mechanisms including steering committee, implementation-monitoring committee, unit/cell.
Can we go cooperative, collective, enterprise, local circular, self-help way? Natural? On scale, across, everywhere, meeting all needs, products, services, knowledge, et al. Can we be with; serve; resource; advocate for them? For lasting legacy, sustainably. Can we build ecosystems for this?
Yes, we can. If we coexist, flowing. Enterprising severally everywhere. In N? tajjnayoga for 7L.