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Cooperative sector to have bigger role in Plan: Patnaik

— Photo: H. Vibhu

Mark of tradition: A procession marking the culmination of the sixth Cooperative Congress in Kochi in progress on Sunday.

KOCHI: The State Planning Board will give more importance to the cooperatives sector in the coming Five-Year Plans, said State Planning Board vice-chairman Prabhat Patnaik here on Sunday.

He was speaking at an international seminar on the cooperative movement here on the last day of the three-day State Coopearative Congress. He said the cooperative sector should show more commitment to resist the process of globalisation. Dr. Patnaik said there was a need to provide a big boost to the farming sector, small-scale producers and cooperatives.

He said more than overpoliticisation, there was partial cooperation in the sector. He called for determination and a clear perspective to move ahead.

Minister for Cooperation G. Sudhakaran, who presided over the inauguration of the seminar, said the cooperative sector had made inroads into all the sectors in such a way as to benefit the common man. Kerala also had the responsibility to bring the Indian cooperative sector on a par with the global level, he added. He said no Cooperative Congress in the past had seen a division on the lines of the various political fronts. The Cooperative Congress was not the venue to air political differences. He was referring to the incident in which a number of UDF workers boycotted the speech by Minister for Forests Benoy Viswom at the Cooperative Congress on Saturday.

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