Newskarnataka – Mangalore

Mangalore: Rashtriya Sanghatan Samithi Baitak (RSSB) of Sahakar Bharati was held on June 7 at the conference hall of the CAMPCO head office. Delegates throughout the country took part in this meeting.

Satish Marathe, the national president of Sahakar Bharati said meeting mainly decided on the action plan for various topics like scrapping the imposition of income tax on co-operatives as proposed by the UPA government in the Direct Tax Code Bill, withdrawal of the obnoxious amendments proposed in the Multi State Co-operative Act and demand the RBI to introduce the Micro Finance Development and Regulatory Bill which could not be enacted during the entire term of the 15th Lok Sabha.

Scrapping of the Prakash Bakshi report on the short term credit institutions in the rural areas and the appointment of a new committee to recommend the steps to strengthen PACs, to appoint a committee to formulate the norms for promoting the public co-operative partnership model particularly in service sectors like transport, water, electricity, health etc and many other things also were discussed in the meeting.

The Kerala State Amended Co-operative Act is under the political clutches and hence needs to be scrapped. In the meeting, it is decided to recommend the government of Kerala to introduce an Autonomous Co-operative Act.

Konkodi Padmanabh, the vice-president of Sahakar Bharati and the president of CAMPCO were also present at the occasion.