Union Budget 2026: India Has Declared Cooperatives as the Second Engine — Now Fuel Them Like One
For the first time in independent India, something fundamentally important has changed. Cooperatives are no longer invisible.
The creation of the Ministry of Cooperation, the rollout of the National Cooperation Policy 2025, the revival of PACS, their computerisation, the formation of NCEL, NCOL, BBSSL, Bhart Taxi and focused schemes like Ayushman Sahakar, Sehkar Sarthi have sent a strong and unambiguous signal