(Outlay: Rs. 600.00 lakh)

The co-operative societies in the State have played an important role in bringing alternate model of development in the State, for the benefit of people including poor and marginalized categories. A number of new initiatives were evolved in the co-operative sector for further scaling up. During the year 2019-20 the outlay is provided to promot innovations in co-operative sector and for promoting model co-operatives. The outlay will be used for extending support only for healthy societies with a consistent positive net worth for the last five years. The innovations and models evolved for scaling up will be popularised subsequently. A high level expert committee under the RCS will prepare a list of co-operatives for consideration based on transparent criteria and Rules of the same. (View Rule)