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Promoting the Spirit of Cooperation
Outlook
|October 11, 2024
D N Thakur shares his idea of fostering and adopting a people-centric cooperative approach to constructively engage all its citizens towards building an all-encompassing developed nation
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The road to developed Bharat has to essentially pass through its villages and touch the lives and activities of all its citizens in a fair and equitable manner. The goal and vision have to be internalised by everyone in this country. People of Bharat have to be at the forefront, driving and owning up to this agenda. Every citizen has to treat themselves as an asset and equal stakeholder in this transformative journey of Bharat. The foundation block and root of Bharat lie in its villages. Though formally not registered as a cooperative society, every village and its hamlets are an epitome of the principles, spirit, and values of cooperation. Here, people live, dream, and rejoice together; share and solve their problems; and have a common and shared vision. Every village has the potential and requisite
This story is from the October 11, 2024 edition of Outlook.
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