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Regional Directorate, DEHRADUN
National Cooperative Development Corporation DEHRADUN E-mail : RO.Dehradun@ncdc.in
1. State in jurisdiction: Uttaranchal
2. Major Activities funded in the State:
This Directorate deals in promotion and development of Cooperatives in Uttaranchal State. The State has availed assistance from NCDC in major activities like Marketing and Inputs, Storage, Consumer, ICDP and Weaker Sections (like Handlooms, etc.) programme. Till March, 2004, State had availed cumulative assistance of Rs. 26.02 crores against NCDC's aggregate disbursement of Rs. 7724.01 crores which is 0.34% of total disbursement.
3. Success stories / Achievements:
Uttaranchal came into existence on 09.11.2000 as 27th State of the country by virtue of promulgation of UP Reorganization Act, 2000. Accordingly, it is too premature to judge the success stories and otherwise. However, Uttaranchal State Cooperative Marketing Fedn. Ltd., Dehradun, which came into existence by July, 2002 is performing quite well, posting net profit since year of inception. The Federation is also diversifying in the following areas: i. Introduction of insurance in rural areas; In order to ensure continual good work by the UCMF, NCDC had during 2003-04 provided margin money assistance to the tune of Rs. 432 lakhs to Uttaranchal for UCMF Ltd. Apart from the above, following are some of the good performing Cooperatives in Uttaranchal Paniyala Kishan Sewa Sahakari Samiti (KSSS) Ltd., Haridwar. The consistent good performance of the Society has been acknowledged both at the State and National Level and the Paniyala Society has been recipient of the National Aware for Cooperative Excellance in 2002 instituted by NCDC. · Gurukaul Narsan KSSS Ltd., Haridwar. · Bhikkampur Jitpur KSSS Ltd., Haridwar. · Sahaspur KSSS Ltd., Dehradun. · KSSS Limited, Kashipur. · KSSS Limited, Jaspur, U.S. Nagar.
4. Thrust areas:
The State has potential for Integrated Cooperative Development Project, Rehabilitation of Soybean Complex, Fisheries, Organic Farming and Bio-Compost units, Revitalization and Expansion of Herbs and Medicinal Plants Cooperatives, strengthening of Consumer Cooperative Marketing network, Revitalization of Rice Mills and Sick Processing Units, Water Harvesting / Water Users Associations / Cooperatives, Modernization of Cold Storages and setting up of Onion Godowns, etc. New initiatives by NCDC Introduction of new schemes of working capital finance, irrigation and water harvesting, setting up of bio-fertilizer units, installation of computers; Extension of consumer schemes to semi-urban and urban consumer cooperatives for revitalization of existing operations and diversification; Dovetailing the capital investment subsidy schemes of Govt. of India for construction of cold storage and storages in the cooperative sector with the schemes of Corporation.
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