Building Digital Trust: The DPDP Act as a Catalyst for Transparency in Cooperatives
The implementation of the Digital Personal Data Protection framework, underpinned by the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act, 2023, and operationalized through the DPDP Rules, 2025, marks a pivotal shift in how institutions handle personal information.
Cooperative Life Insurance Initiative: A Few Dimensions
The cooperative movement in India, which traces its origins to the institutional framework established under the Credit Cooperative Societies Act, 1904, has now completed well over a century of service. Throughout its evolution, it has remained committed to improving the socio-economic conditions of the weaker and disadvantaged sections of society. Although the movement has made significant contributions in achieving these objectives, a sense of stagnation has gradually emerged in the functioning of many cooperative institutions, particularly in the context of the rapidly changing economic environment.
Cooperative Democracy in Practice: Transforming Communities from Marginalisation to Development
The United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 with the mission of eradicating extreme poverty, hunger, disease, and inequality by the year 2015.
A Roadmap for the Next Phase of Cooperative Development.
Aligned with the initiatives of Ministry of Cooperation, Pirthipur Agriculture Cooperative Society in Himachal Pradesh, with more than 100 years of existence, is a success story in PACS transformation.
Pirthipur Agriculture Cooperative Society in Himachal Pradesh Surges Ahead
Aligned with the initiatives of Ministry of Cooperation, Pirthipur Agriculture Cooperative Society in Himachal Pradesh, with more than 100 years of existence, is a success story in PACS transformation.
Capital Augmentation for ‘Future-Ready’ Rural Financial Cooperatives; An Interview with Krishna Kumar Gupta, Former Chief General Manager, NABARD
The Government has announced new National Cooperative Policy recently.
Women-Led MSMEs in Kenya: Emerging Trends, Barriers, and Policy Interventions Towards the Realization of Kenya Vision 2030
Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) are universally recognized as key drivers of economic growth, job creation, innovation and poverty alleviation. In Kenya, MSMEs led by women represent a substantial part of the business community playing an important role in raising family income levels, promoting social inclusion and fostering local economic development. Despite their growing importance in contributing to national economic performance, women entrepreneurs still face a range of structural challenges such as restricted access to financial services, technology gaps, market exclusion, entrepreneurial capability gap and socio-cultural challenges. With Kenya working its way to achieving the vision set out in Kenya Vision 2030, women-led MSMEs have become instrumental in advancing inclusive growth, poverty alleviation and gender equality objectives. This paper discusses the emerging trends in women-led MSMEs in Kenya, highlights the challenges faced by the enterprises and recommends policy solutions required to maximize the contribution of women entrepreneurship to national development.
Green Financing through Cooperative Credit and Banking Institutions
The United Nations launched the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) in 2000 with the mission of eradicating extreme poverty, hunger, disease, and inequality by the year 2015.
Reinventing Next-Generation Fisheries Cooperatives as Innovation-Driven Rural MSME Engines
India’s fisheries and aquaculture sector is emerging as a rapidly growing sector in terms of production, value addition, exports and livelihood support. It accounts for 7.43% of agricultural gross value added and contributes 1.1% to the national gross domestic product.
The Academic Pillar of Cooperation: LINAC – Training, Innovation, and the Future Roadmap
The Reserve Bank of India’s decision to cancel the licence of Sarvodaya Co-operative Bank Ltd. on May 12, 2026, is not merely another regulatory action against a distressed financial institution. It is a reminder that India’s cooperative banking sector continues to face significant challenges in governance credibility, depositor protection, and institutional resilience.