Lok Sabha Question No. 26 (STARRED), answered on 2023-12-05
Subject: Sahakar Pragya Scheme/Initiative
Ministry: COOPERATION
Asked by: Sanjay(Kaka) Ramchandra Patil

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COOPERATION

## LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 26 TO BE ANSWERED ON 05/12/2023

## Sahakar Pragya Scheme/Initiative

## *26. SHRI SANJAY KAKA PATIL:

Will the Minister of COOPERATION ( सहकाįरता मंũी ) be pleased to state:

- (a) the details of the Corporations/Cooperatives that have been benefited under the Sahakar Pragya Scheme/Initiative;
- (b) the number of regional training centres for carrying out/ implementing the Scheme, State-wise particularly located in Maharashtra;
- (c) whether  the  Government  plans  to  increase  the  number  of  regional  training  centres  across  the country; and
- (d) if so, the details thereof and if not, the reasons therefor?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION सहकाįरता मंũी (SHRI AMIT SHAH)

- (a) to (d): A statement is laid on the Table of the House.

## STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (a) to (d) OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 26 DUE FOR REPLY ON 05 th  DECEMBER, 2023

(a):  National  Cooperative  Development  Corporation  (NCDC),  a  statutory  corporation  under  the administrative  control  of  Ministry  of  Cooperation,  implements  Sahakar  Pragya  initiative  through Laxmanrao Inamdar National Academy for Cooperative Research and Development (LINAC).

LINAC functions as the training, research and consultancy wing of NCDC. It is located in Gurugram, Haryana and has 18 Regional Training Centres (RTC) across the country.

Sahakar Pragya, focuses on developing professionalism in primary cooperatives in agriculture and  allied  sectors.  It  designs  and  conducts  need-based  programmes  for  personnel  of  assisted cooperatives  and  its  own  officials.    It  collaborates  with  Centre  for  International  Cooperation  in Training  &  Agricultural  Banking  (CICTAB),  Network  for  the  Development  of  Agricultural Cooperatives in Asia and the Pacific (NEDAC) and other international agencies to conduct specialized programmes for co-operators in India and abroad including those from South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries.

The details of the number of training programs and participants from cooperatives that have been benefited under Sahakar Pragya initiative since its inception in 2018-19, are as follows:

| Year                    |   Training Programs conducted | Participants Benefitted   |
|-------------------------|-------------------------------|---------------------------|
| 2018-19                 |                            40 | 1227                      |
| 2019-20                 |                            66 | 1848                      |
| 2020-21                 |                           121 | 8076                      |
| 2021-22                 |                           256 | 19927                     |
| 2022-23                 |                           246 | 18364                     |
| 2023-24 (upto 31.10.23) |                           128 | 8274                      |
| Total                   |                           857 | 57,716                    |

- (b): LINAC has 18 Regional Training Centres for capacity building and imparting training to personnel of cooperative societies across the country. One of the Regional Training Centres is located in Pune, Maharashtra for implementing the initiative in the State of Maharashtra. Further, the State-wise details of Regional Training Centers is enclosed at Annexure - I.
- (c)&(d): In order to realize the vision of 'Sahakar se Samriddhi', Ministry of Cooperation has taken many new initiatives, which includes 'Education and Training in the Cooperative Sector'.

Further, National Council for Cooperative Training (NCCT), an autonomous institute under the Ministry of Cooperation, organizes cooperative education and training programs for personnel, members and board members of Cooperative Societies across the country.

It  conducts  these  programs  through  its  20  constituent  training  institutes  spread  across  the country, out of which VAMNICOM (Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management) is a National Level institute. In addition, there are 14 State level and five Regional Level institutes.

NCCT conducted 3287 training programs in the year 2022-23 for cooperative participants, workers and professionals across the country. During this period, the Council provided training to about 2,01,507 participants.

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## Annexure - I

|   Sl. No. | Name of RTC        | States/UTs under Jurisdiction   |
|-----------|--------------------|---------------------------------|
|         1 | Bengaluru          | Karnataka                       |
|         2 | Bhopal             | Madhya Pradesh                  |
|         3 | Bhubaneswar        | Odisha                          |
|         4 | Chandigarh         | Haryana                         |
|         4 | Chandigarh         | Punjab                          |
|         4 | Chandigarh         | Chandigarh                      |
|         4 | Chandigarh         | Jammu &Kashmir                  |
|         5 | Chennai            | Tamilnadu                       |
|         5 | Chennai            | Puducherry                      |
|         6 | Dehradun           | Uttrakhand                      |
|         7 | Gandhinagar        | Gujarat                         |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Assam                           |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Meghalaya                       |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Manipur                         |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Nagaland                        |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Mizoram                         |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Arunachal Pradesh               |
|         8 | Guwahati           | Tripura                         |
|         9 | Hyderabad          | Andhra Pradesh                  |
|         9 | Hyderabad          | Telangana                       |
|        10 | Jaipur             | Rajasthan                       |
|        11 | Kolkata            | Sikkim                          |
|        12 | Lucknow            | Uttar Pradesh                   |
|        13 | Patna              | Bihar                           |
|        14 | Pune               | Maharashtra                     |
|        14 | Pune               | Goa                             |
|        15 | Raipur             | Chhattisgarh                    |
|        16 | Ranchi             | Jharkhand                       |
|        17 | Shimla             | Himachal Pradesh                |
|        17 | Shimla             | Ladakh                          |
|        18 | Thiruvananthapuram | Kerala                          |
|        18 | Thiruvananthapuram | Lakshadweep                     |