Sahakar Pragya launched by Minister of Agriculture

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‘Sahakar Pragya’ was recently launched. (Recently in News)

• Launched by: Ministry of Agriculture
• The GoI innovative capacity building initiative have been launched for the farmers associated with such entities nationwide. 

Objective of Sahakar Pragya: 

• To impart training to primary cooperative societies in rural areas (to play bigger roles in Atmanirbhar Bharat call of PM Narendra Modi.)

Key Points To Note about Sahakar Pragya

• There will be 45 new training modules of Sahakar Pragya.
• Farmers in primary cooperatives in rural areas would be trained by the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) 
• Sahakar Pragya would be implemented by elaborated network of 18 Regional Training Centres (RTC) across India.
• These RTC are run by the Haryana-based Laxmanrao Inamdar National Academy for Cooperative Research and Development (LINAC) that works under the National Cooperative Development Corporation.
• Sahakar Pragya shall enhance NCDC’s training capacity by 18-fold through an elaborate network of 18 Regional Training Centres across the country by the dedicated LINAC set up and fully funded by NCDC.
• Overview
• Cooperative sector to play a role in making the village-poor-farmers Atma Nirbhar.
• India boasts a huge network of over 8.50 lakh cooperative societies with about 290 million members.