(Budget Outlay Rs. 145 lakh)
Under the scheme, assistance is provided for:
- a) Kerala State Co-operative Union for meeting a portion of the cost of Member Education Programme.
- b) Assistance to Institute of Cooperative Management, Thiruvananthapuram for conducting regular training programmes and seminars.
- c) Institute of Co-operative Management, Kannur for meeting 50% share of infrastructure support as matching contribution as per the MoU with National Cooperative Union.
- d) Assistance for providing training to the Co-operative Department personnel.
- e) Assistance to the training institute of the Department.
- f) Assistance to ACSTI, Thiruvananthapuram to make it an autonomous institution and State Training Centre of KSCARDB for providing training to the department officers.
- g) Assistance to ICM, Kannur for initial cost of Hostal construction.
Assistance for Co-operative Propoganda
- h) Assistance for conferences, to organize the Cooperative Congress, All India Cooperative Agro Industrial Marketing and Educational Exhibition, propagation of Cooperative principles, to organize campaign for deposit mobilization, propagate Co-operative literature and the literature on Government programmes and policies.
- i) Assistance for trophies to the PACS, Urban Banks, District Co-operative Banks and employees Credit Co-operatives for their excellent performance in deposit mobilization Campaign and to provide awards to best PACS, Urban Banks, District Co-operative Banks, PCARDB, SC/ST Societies, Women Cooperative Societies, Eminent Co-operators, Employees in the Co-operative Societies etc.
- j) Assistance to conduct studies on cooperative sector
- k) Assistance for setting up of an online platform for propaganda and publicity.
- l) Assistance to conduct “Member Induction Programme” for the newly enrolled members
- m) Assistance for conducting excellency exchange interaction programme with the intention to study the functioning of the cooperative societies and to visit the societies within and outside the State.
- n) Assistance to meet the printing charges of Sahakarana Veedhi Magazine, News Letters, the Departmental publications and circulars/forms and proforma etc.