INTERNATIONAL COOPERATIVES DAY 2025: BUILDING A BETTER TOMORROW

India marks International Cooperatives Day 2025 with launch of Tribhuvan Sahkari University, digitalization of PACS, and White Revolution 2.0, reinforcing rural prosperity and cooperative empowerment under PM Modi's vision of Atmanirbhar Bharat.

- TDG NETWORK

On the occasion of International Cooperatives Day, celebrated globally on the first Saturday of July each year and falling this year on 5th July 2025, with the further distinction that 2025 has been designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Cooperatives, the global cooperative movement stands at a pivotal crossroads—anchored in its century-old ethos of mutual assistance, democratic governance, and community-driven development—while embarking upon transformative reforms and digital modernization that promise to elevate its capacity to deliver inclusive growth, sustainable livelihoods, and social empowerment to rural India, whose nearly 3.42 lakh cooperative societies form the backbone of agricultural credit, dairy, fisheries, organic farming, housing, and financial inclusion initiatives across the country, embodying the guiding principle of "Sahkar Se Samriddhi" or prosperity through cooperation.

As India commemorates this landmark year and day, it celebrates not only the enduring heritage of its cooperative system—which traces its formal origins back to the Punjab cooperative societies in 1891, predating the Cooperative Societies Act of 1904—but also the vast and deepening reforms led by the Ministry of Cooperation, under the stewardship of Union Minister Shri Amit Shah, aimed at ushering in a new era of digital transformation, institutional professionalism, sectoral diversification, and policy modernization that together catalyze the promise of rural resurgence, economic resilience, and equitable opportunity.