Strategic Aspects & Policy Perspective for Development

of Cooperatives in Assam (GoA)

Prepared by
Prof. Arup Barman
Dept. of Business Administration,
Assam University, Silchar (Assam)
Email: abgeet@gmail.com
and
Dr Biswajit Chakraborty
Deputy Registrar of Cooperatives,
Nagaon District (Assam)

(dtd 2nd Nov 2022)

For Holistic Plan

1. Vision Development: Govt. has to develop realistic- pragmatic visions for the development of
cooperatives with the help of visionary development professionals.
Suggestion: (By 2047, the economy of the state of Assam will embed a cooperative-based
economy and will become one of the top performing states through collaboration and solidarity
economy through sustainable ventures revolution)

2. Mission: Holistic mission for the cooperative need to be developed in support of multi-
stakeholders guided by the practices of the world and in support of professionals.
Suggestion: State has to initiate Cooperative Development as the Mission of the State ( Like the
Health Mission of Govt.)

3. Strategy and Tactical Implementation for Cooperatives' development need through the
professional and performance-based approach. All these need engagement planning for all
stakeholders to execute tactical planning for the management of visible and realistic development.
Think-Tank Development for mission vision, execution and tactical development and execution is a
must for the long-term sustainable development of Co-ops.
Point to Point/Issue to Issue:

1. Promoting Cooperatives-
- Policy change, Campaign and Awareness, Incentives to Villages, Empowering Panchayats,
MLAs, and MPs.
- Training, Engaging Education Sector,
- Funding, State level, Mission Based Incentives Design
_ Introduction of Merger and Acquisition Policy and Implementation Training to parties

2. Promotion of Cooperation among Cooperatives

- Common Resource Centre Development
- Common Knowledge Centre Development
- Assigning and Designing Mentor Cooperatives
- Development of State Level Cooperative Federations (under State Missions)
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- Multi-Sake holder Campaign, Awareness
- Incentives, Finance
- Engaging Higher education for Awareness and Delegating them to engage in motivating
villagers, project identification and mentoring
- Govt. Land Utilisation for Cooperatives, departmental support designing.

4. For Multipurpose Copeeerative Development

- Engaging Higher Education with Practice
-Engaging Government Nominated Advisors for Academician Engagement in the mission
- Incorporation of Institutions
- Promoting “Ideas to Action”
- Designing Development funds for villages ad making a point that “ No Cooperative in Village, No
Other Funds.” Initiate and run cooperatives in your house, and get incentive and government
supports.
-Government identification of Lands, Project Invitations
- Market Development by Local Experts and Real Life Exemplars.
-Motivation and Incentives

5. Membership Drive
- Youth Engagement
- Business Engagement
-Banking Sector Engagement
- Efficient Cooperative Bank Mgt.
- Common Information Centre
- Cooperative Facilitation Campign by gov.
-Connecting Powers Centres, Benchmarked coop development as Political and Representational
Success
- No engagement in cooperatives no fund to local MLA policy,
- Tickets policy based on the contribution towards cooperatives
- Membership Facilitation, Incentive Plan

6. Developing cooperatives for Sustainable Growth

- Strategic Engagement of Higher Education Institutions
- Sustainable Venture Identifications Campaign for Engagement
- Finance, support and strategic development in the sectoral aspects of the economy that cares
about sustainability,
- State Level and District and Local Level Sustainable development Planning and Execution Planning
- Connecting cooperatives to sustainable development, incentives, tactical planning design

7. Mitigation of Regional Imbalance

- Research and Identification
- Cooperative Venture Growth as the criteria of development of a region,
- Equity of growth of support ecology for “Cooperative Development”
8. Exploring New Sectors-
- Research and Campaign
- Advocacy
- Training
- Promoting through Finance, advisory for Circular Economics and Enterprises to Solidarity
Enterprises like Coop Ventures

(The establishment of a Central Govt, State Govt. or Jointly Funded “Regional Training,
Consultancy, and Research Institute for Cooperative Development” is a must. It will work
as an agency for doing many groundworks for the realistic achievement of the mission and
vision, detail planning and executions in regard)