The Ministry of Cooperation addressed Unstarred Question No. 449 by Shri Praveen Khandelwal regarding the National Traders Cooperative Network, to be answered on December 2, 2025. The question inquired whether the Government plans to establish a National Traders Cooperative Network to organize unregistered traders, hawkers, craftsmen, and small merchants into cooperative clusters, and if Chandni Chowk had been identified as a potential pilot site for cooperative retail modernization, including the details thereof. The Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah, stated that establishing a National Traders Cooperative Network has not been contemplated so far. Therefore, the remaining questions do not arise.
Key Entities Referenced
Ministry of Cooperation: The primary subject of the document, indicated as the ministry responsible for the answer provided.
National Traders Cooperative Network: Proposed network to organise traders, hawkers, craftsmen, and merchants into cooperative clusters.
Lok Sabha: Parliament house where the question was raised.
Chandni Chowk: Location considered as a potential pilot site for cooperative retail modernization.
GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COOPERATION
LOK SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 449
TO BE ANSWERED ON 2nd DECEMBER, 2025
NATIONAL TRADERS COOPERATIVE NETWORK
449. Shri Praveen Khandelwal:
Will the Minister of COOPERATION (सहकारिता मंत्री) be pleased to state :
(a) Whether the Government proposes to establish a National Traders Cooperative Network to
organise unregistered traders, hawkers, craftsmen and small merchants into cooperative clusters;
(b) Whether Chandni Chowk has been identified as a potential pilot site for cooperative retail
modernization; and
(c) if so, the details thereof?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION
सहकारिता मंत्री (SHRI AMIT SHAH)
(a): It has not been contemplated so far.
(b) & (c): Does not arise in view of the reply to part (a) above.
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