Ministry of Cooperation with active participation of various States/ UTs has taken various initiatives to revitalize and strengthen the cooperative sector across the country and to achieve the vision of “Sahakar se Samriddhi”, as mentioned at Annexure 1.

National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), a statutory body under the administrative control of Ministry of Cooperation, being an Implementing Agency under the Central Sector Scheme titled "Formation and Promotion of 10,000 Farmer Producer Organizations (FPOs)”, has registered 610 new FPOs as on 30.06.2023. A target of additional 1,100 new FPOs have been allocated to NCDC by the Government, for strengthening of cooperative sector. Now, NCDC has become able to extend the benefit of the scheme by enabling Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (PACS) to form new FPOs.

NCDC is also supporting and handholding the FPOs, for registration and legal compliance processes, through Cluster Based Business Organizations (CBBOs).

Further, NCDC had earlier launched its own initiative named Sahakar– 22, during FY 2017-18, to achieve the Mission of New India by the year 2022 through Cooperatives.

Sahakar – 22 initiative of NCDC included the following:

• FOCUS 222 – NCDC’s focused assistance for Cooperatives in 222 Districts (including 117 Aspirational Districts identified by NITI Aayog);
• PACS HUB – Transformation of PACS and other Coops as Apna Kisan Resource Centers;
• AENEC - Act East and North East Cooperatives;
• CEMtC - Centres of Excellence to Market through Cooperatives;
• SAHAKAR PRAGYA - Capacity Development through Laxmanrao Inamdar National Academy for Cooperative Research Development (LINAC).

  Under the FPOscheme, Cluster Based Business Organizations havebeen engaged by NCDC for providing access tomarket linkages, value addition, branding andmarketing of the produce. NCDC monitors overall implementation of the scheme through its 18 Regional Offices across the country.

The Government of India monitors the financial disbursements under NCDC schemes like Sahakar- 22 through approval of annual Programme of Activities, monthly review of the financial achievements, control through Board of Management and General Council, auditing Annual Accounts by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) and laying Annual Accounts and Annual Report before the Parliament of India. This ensures effectiveness in implementation of NCDC schemes like Sahakar- 22.

This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha.