This book is concerned with the Development of Cooperative Movement in India which has taken place since 1904. It is high time to review the working of cooperatives as the cooperative movement in India has completed its 100 years of working. During this time it has proved that the cooperatives have remained as the shield in the hands of weaker section of society especially, farmers, wage earners and women, etc. Further it has been recognized as a golden mean between capitalism and socialism. However, cooperative movement has some laculans in its working, which need to remove. This book aims to give the review of different types of cooperatives in India and also highlights the challenges before the cooperatives in a New Economic Era and a need for reasserting the cooperatives. The articles included in this volume cover wide field of cooperative activities. Such as: Re-discovering Cooperation; NEP and Cooperatives; Corporate Governance of Cooperatives; Processing Cooperatives; Women’s Cooperative; Urban Banks; Consumers’ Cooperative; Information, Technology & Cooperation; Success Story of Warana Cooperative Complex, etc.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR P A Koli
Dr. P.A. Koli is a senior professor in Department of Economics, Shivaji University, Kolhapur, Maharashtra State. He has been teaching post graduate classes including M.A., M.Phil. and M.Sc. sericulture for the last 20 years. He has contributed a number of research papers in variuos national journals and seminars. He has also attended many national and international conferences. He has so far written books on Indian Economy i.e. Cooperative Banking, Dairying and Economics of Sericulture. He has worked as resource person to Sardar Patel University (Gujrat), Annamalia University (T.N.), Gram vishwavidyalay, Chitracoot (M.P.), Goa University, etc. Dr. Koli is an excellent teacher, writer, researcher and orator. Presently Dr. Koli is involved in UGC's major research project on rural development, environment and co-operative movement. So far he has delivered more than four hundred lectures in public, academic, Government and co-operative institutions.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR V.B. Jugale
V.B. Jugale is Professor and Head, Department of Economics and Dean of the Social Science Faculty, Shivaji University, Kolhapur. He is the Chief Editor of the Indian Development Review (An International Journal of Development Economics) published by the Serials Publication, New Delhi. He has a credit of authoring the reference books on; Theories of Agricultural Finance, Wages, Employment and Industrial Relations of Farm Sector Workers in Sugar industry, Sugarcane Pricing, Village Banking, Cooperative Credit in Indian Agriculture, Economic Analysis of Saline Lands in Sugarcane Belt, Decontrol and Delicensing of Sugar Industry, Water Management in Krishna River Basin, Water Resources in Man River Basin, Water Resources in Man River Basin, Horticulture Economy of Maharashtra etc. and such other 15 booklets and occasional papers. He has also a credit of publishing eighty research articles in the national international journals. He has presented more than hundred research papers in various seminars, conferences and symposiums organized by national and international organizations. He is the Founder President of the Centre for Social Studies and Research, Sangli.
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