Even when it comes to surplus or marketable milk, which is left after domestic consumption, only 2.5% of 3.50 crore litres comes from dairy cooperatives. Only 17% of villages in MP have milk collection facilities. The MoU has created scope for increasing dairy cooperatives penetration to the remaining 83% villages,” Shah said.
Without naming the Congress regimes in the past at the Centre, Shah said that the cooperative movement had “almost died” in many states, as the existing laws remained unchanged to keep in sync with changing times.
Seventy-five years after the country’s independence, Prime Minister Narendra Modi created a separate ministry for cooperation (cooperatives) at the centre. “In 3.5 years, we’ve worked to usher sea change, particularly by framing model bylaws to foster the growth of primary cooperative societies.”
