Message on Cooperation
Transparency, technology and members first
Shri Amit Shah, Union Minister of Cooperation
As the Ministry of Cooperation marked four years and celebrated the International Year of Cooperatives 2025, Shri Amit Shah highlighted the Five-P framework guiding cooperative progress:
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“Cooperatives cannot survive long without transparency. Where technology was not accepted, cooperatives could not survive in the face of competition. The cooperative institution in which the interest of the members was not considered paramount also ended... All of us cooperative leaders should inculcate these three values in our field of work.”— Shri Amit Shah, Union Minister of Cooperation