Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Thursday launched ‘White Revolution 2.0’, along with an action plan on the formation and strengthening of two lakh new Multipurpose Primary Agriculture Cooperative Societies, dairy and fishery cooperatives and a standard operating procedure on ‘cooperation among cooperatives’.
Addressing the national conference on the initiatives taken by the Ministry of Cooperation in the first 100 days of the third term of the NDA government, Shah said the ‘White Revolution 2.0’ will strengthen women’s self-reliance and empowerment as well as the fight against malnutrition.
The programme focuses on four key areas – empowering women farmers, enhancing local milk production, strengthening dairy infrastructure and boosting dairy exports.
Shah said in the first 100 days of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s third term, the Ministry of Cooperation has taken “10 important initiatives out of which three are being launched today”. These initiatives will help make the cooperative sector self-reliant and broad-based, he said.
Shah said: “Many people are apprehensive about whether budget support will be available for this programme (White Revolution 2.0) or not. I assure the Animal Husbandry Department that this is the highest priority area of the government and this programme will get full budgetary support.”
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