According to media sources, Parliament has passed the Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill, 2025 with the Rajya Sabha approving it today. Lok Sabha has already passed the bill. The Bill seeks to establish the Institute of Rural Management Anand, as a University to be known as the Tribhuvan Sahkari University and to declare it as an institution of national importance. The institution will impart technical and management education and training in the cooperative sector and promote cooperative research and development to attain standards of global excellence in order to realise the vision of Sahakar Se Samriddhi. It will also strengthen the co-operative movement in the country through a network of institutions and to declare the Institute as one of the Schools of the University.
Replying to a debate on the Bill, Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol said that in the last three and half years, the government has taken several initiatives to give new direction to the cooperative sector. He said the Primary Agricultural Credit Society (PACS has been empowered and has been made multipurpose. Mr Mohol said the government has set a target to increase the number of PACS from one lakh to three lakh in the next five years.
The Minister said the rural economy will play a major role in realising the goal of making India the third-largest economy in the world in 2047. He said there are eight lakh cooperative institutions are functional in the country in which over 30 crore people are engaged. He said, this vast number reflects that one member of every farmer’s family is linked with cooperatives. Mr Mohol said that during the UPA regime in 2013-14, the budget for the cooperative was only 122 crore rupees and in the Narendra Modi government, the budget has been increased by around ten times to one thousand 190 crore rupees. He said that since the inception of the Ministry of Cooperation, several initiatives have been taken to strengthen the cooperative sector in the country. He said the bill will promote cooperative sprit in the country.
Earlier, initiating the discussion on the Bill, Digvijaya Singh of Congress accused the government of corporatisation of cooperatives. He said there is pa rovision in the Constitution that in every five years, elections of cooperative society should be held but in various States ,it is being not followed. He said, the cooperative societies are in the State list. Indu Bala Goswami of BJP said that there are eight lakh cooperative societies in the country. She said, cooperatives are not only the means of gaining profit but also are the path of the development of humanity. She said that the Narendra Modi government has allocated one thousand 186 crore rupees in the Union Budget 2025-26 for the cooperative sector. She said, this budget is nearly 10 times than the budget allocated for this sector during the UPA regime.
Ashok Kumar Mittal of AAP said that more than eight lakh cooperative societies are functional in the country in which 30 crore people are engaged. He said , there is provision in the bill to declare the Institute of Rural Management Anand as Tribhuvan Sahkari University. He said, the government has allocated 500 crore rupees for this. He said, declaring the institution as of national importance a welcome step.
Subhasish Khuntia of BJD said that the bill appears to be about strengthening cooperative education. He alleged that bringing this biil is an attempt to bringing cooperative institutions under the control of Central government in the name of education. He alleged that some clauses of the bill promote centralisation.
Ayodhya Rami Reddy Alla of YSRCP said that said that the purpose of the bill is to establish IRMA as Tribhuvan Sahkari University and it will impart education, training and capacity building in cooperative sector and also undertake research and development activities in related areas. He said, the University will also offer degrees, post-graduate degrees, programmes and courses on centre of excellence in cooperative sector.
Other members including Sanjay Yadav of RJD, Naresh Bansal of BJP , K R N Rajeshkumar of DMK and Dr M Thambidurai of AIADMK also spoke on the bill. Later the house adjourned for the day to meet again tomorrow at 11 AM.
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