EMN
Dimapur, February 18
The government of Nagaland is urged to lift suspension of National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) schemes and to start implementation of the schemes in Nagaland without further delay “as Nagaland falls under the category of co-operative by least developed state in the country.”
The All Nagaland Co-operative Societies’ Federation (ANCSF), the organization placing the demand, met for their second ‘general meeting’ on February 17.
The meeting was conducted in the Red Cross Society Complex building in Kohima town, the organization informed.
The organization “thoroughly deliberated on various essential matters and unanimously” undertook a number of resolutions “concerning the welfare of the primary co-operative societies in the state.”
“The house unanimously resolved to urge the state government to lift suspension/ban of NCDC schemes and thereby start implementation of NCDC schemes in the state of Nagaland without further delay as Nagaland falls under the category of co-operative by least developed state in the country,” the first resolution, as stated in the press release, read.
“This meeting in another resolution strongly urge the state government of Nagaland particularly department of co-operative to expedite for early implementation of ICDP in the remaining districts i.e., Kohima, Peren, Longleng, Kiphire and Tuensang,” the second resolution said.
The organization also asked all the beneficiaries of co-operative societies under the NCDC and ICDP of the past years to promptly ‘recover their loans to improve recovery drive without further delay.’