Parliament Question: Training and Capacity Building of Cooperatives

GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COOPERATION LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION No. 325 TO BE ANSWERED ON 11TH AUGUST, 2026 Training and Capacity Building of Cooperatives *325. Shri Krishna Prasad Tenneti: Shri Chandra Prakash Joshi: Will the Minister of COOPERATION (सहकारिता मंत्री) be pleased to state: (a) the details of programmes implemented for capacity building, cooperative education and professional training of office bearers, directors and employees of cooperative societies during the last three years; (b) the number of persons trained under such programmes, State-wise particularly for Maharashtra including Jalgaon Lok Sabha Constituency, Jharkhand and district-wise details of Rajasthan; (c) whether the Government proposes to establish new cooperative training institutions or strengthen existing institutions; (d) if so, the details thereof, particularly for Maharashtra including Jalgaon Lok Sabha Constituency and Jharkhand; and (e) whether the Government has undertaken any measures to strengthen cooperative governance through digital training, financial management, leadership development and skill upgradation, if so, the details thereof? ANSWER THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION सहकारिता मंत्री (SHRI AMIT SHAH) (a) to (e): A statement is laid on the Table of the House. Page 1 of 16STATEMENT REFERRED TO IN REPLY TO PARTS (A) TO (E) IN RESPECT OF LOK SABHA STARRED QUESTION NO. 325 FOR REPLY ON 11TH AUGUST, 2026 ASKED BY SHRI KRISHNA PRASAD TENNETI AND SHRI CHANDRA PRAKASH JOSHI REGARDING “TRAINING AND CAPACITY BUILDING OF COOPERATIVES”. (a) & (b): The Ministry of Cooperation, through its training institutions, conducts capacity building, cooperative education and professional training programmes for office bearers, directors, Chief Executive Officers, employees and members of cooperative societies. During the last three years (2023-24 to 2025-26), 12,824 training programmes have been conducted covering 8,18,415 participants. The State-wise details of persons trained under these programmes are at Annexure-I. During the last three years, 75,954 persons were trained in Maharashtra, including 17 participants from Jalgaon Lok Sabha Constituency. In Rajasthan, 44,911 persons were trained and the district-wise details are at Annexure-II. In Jharkhand, 1,551 persons were trained by training institutes of the Ministry. In addition to the above, the State Government of Jharkhand has also trained 2,003 participants in cooperative sector in the last three years, details of which are attached at Annexure-III. (c) & (d): In order to strengthen the cooperative movement in the country through the promotion of the cooperative-based economic model and the creation of an appropriate institutional framework, the Ministry of Cooperation has established a national-level university in the cooperative sector, namely, “Tribhuvan” Sahakari University (TSU), by converting the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) w.e.f. 6th April, 2025. VAMNICOM Pune from Maharashtra, ICM Jaipur from Rajasthan have got affiliation with TSU and Cooperative Training Center (CTC), Ranchi, Jharkhand has also applied for the affiliation with TSU. (e): Yes, Sir. The Government has undertaken various measures to strengthen cooperative governance through digital training, financial management, leadership development and skill upgradation. Government of India is implementing a project for Computerization of functional PACS under which 63,686 PACS have been onboarded on ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) based common national software as on 15.07.2026. A total of 63,479 PACS have been trained by NABARD for capacity building of the personnel on the ERP based software with details attached at Annexure-IV. Additionally, NABARD is conducting training programmes for the cooperatives through the Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) and the Scheme of Financial Assistance for Training of Cooperative Banks Personnel (SOFTCOB) Programme. A total of 4,287 participants through BIRD and 1,17,227 participants through SOFTCOB Programme have Page 2 of 16been trained in the last three years, the details of which are attached at Annexure-V and Annexure-VI respectively. Further, The Ministry of Cooperation, through its training institutes conducted 649 capacity- building programmes for 30,271 Secretaries of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) on Common Services Centre (CSC) services (details at Annexure-VII), 260 programmes for 11,592 functionaries of Multipurpose Cooperative Societies (MPCS) (details at Annexure- VIII), and 7,320 village-level cooperative awareness programmes benefiting 6,00,602 members of cooperative societies (details at Annexure-IX). ***** Page 3 of 16Annexure – I State-wise details of training achievements by NCCT from 2023-24 to 2025-26 S. No. State / UT 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 Andhra Pradesh 2367 6299 3277 2 Arunachal Pradesh 156 283 0 3 Assam 10444 9214 14928 4 Bihar 14114 13292 14595 5 Chhattisgarh 309 815 609 6 Delhi 139 0 13 7 Gujarat 12770 10264 131 8 Goa 209 105 18085 9 Haryana 3707 2674 4658 10 Himachal Pradesh 135 28045 1514 11 Jharkhand 792 756 3 12 Karnataka 13826 17944 18054 13 Kerala 30262 45321 70772 14 Madhya Pradesh 8018 10138 4224 15 Maharashtra 30663 24090 21201 16 Manipur 5635 4778 8312 17 Meghalaya 60 401 147 18 Mizoram 0 76 144 19 Nagaland 0 0 46 20 Orissa 9998 27399 9797 21 Punjab 7463 7376 5671 22 Rajasthan 9311 22230 13370 23 Sikkim 0 16 0 24 Tamil Nadu 23289 53325 38363 25 Telangana 9448 5639 5696 26 Tripura 0 506 814 27 Uttar Pradesh 7993 9861 10429 28 Uttarakhand 5898 4201 3249 29 West Bengal 12506 9371 5865 30 Union Territories 2333 715 931 31 Others 5332 340 866 TOTAL 227177 315474 275764 Page 4 of 16Annexure – II RAJASTHAN DISTRICT WISE DATA FOR LAST THREE YEARS (2025-26, 2024-25 & 2023-24) Sr No. Name of District No. of No. of No. of Partici- No. of No. of Partici- No. of Partici- pants Prog. Prog. pants Prog. pants Traine Trained Trained d FY 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 1 Ajmer 9 282 4 159 - - 2 Alwar 7 270 8 368 1 58 3 Anupgarh - - - - District Not Exist 4 Balotra - - - - - - 5 Banswara - - 4 235 - - 6 Baran - - 4 281 - - 7 Barmer - - 4 316 - - 8 Beawar - - - - - - 9 Bharatpur - - 1 104 - - 10 Bhilwara - - 6 180 - - 11 Bikaner - - 3 209 2 63 12 Bundi - - 3 222 - - 13 Chittorgarh - - 4 252 - - 14 Churu - - 6 183 6 254 15 Dausa 9 407 4 204 - - 16 Deeg - - - - 2 109 17 Didwana- - - - - Kuchaman - - 18 Dholpur - - - - - - 19 Dudu - - - - District Not Exist 20 Dungarpur - - 1 106 - - 21 Gangapur City - - - - District Not Exist 22 Hanumangarh 15 446 4 228 2 98 23 Jaipur Urban 59 2419 8 339 24 2659 24 Jaipur Rural Presently both - - - - district are merged and known as Jaipur 25 Jaisalmer - - 2 57 5 390 26 Jalore - - 5 214 - - Page 5 of 16Sr No. Name of District No. of No. of No. of Partici- No. of No. of Partici- No. of Partici- pants Prog. Prog. pants Prog. pants Traine Trained Trained d FY 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 27 Jhalawar - - 5 325 - - 28 Jhunjhunu 8 469 10 609 2 109 29 Jodhpur East - - 80 12346 6 295 30 Jodhpur West Presently both district are merged - - - - and known as Jodhpur 31 Khairtal-Tijara - - - - - - 32 Karauli 1 30 1 69 3 356 33 Kekri - - - - District Not Exist 34 Kota 4 208 7 312 1 50 35 Kotputli-Behror - - 2 100 4 533 36 Nagaur - - 1 68 3 189 37 Neem Ka Thana 16 555 - - - - 38 Pali - - 3 204 - - 39 Phalodi - - - - - - 40 Pratapgarh - - 2 115 - - 41 Rajsamand - - 1 54 3 128 42 Salumbar District Does Not - - - - Exist 43 Sanchore District Does Not - - - - Exist 44 Sahpura District Does Not - - - - Exist 45 Sawai Madhopur 18 930 3 230 - - 46 Sikar 65 1854 19 1079 2 89 47 Sirohi 5 224 2 117 4 129 48 Sri Ganganagar - - 6 314 - - 49 Tonk - - 4 231 6 445 50 Udaipur 1 20 4 177 - - Note : Participants from 31 1425 34 1725 132 7686 All District of Rajasthan. Total 248 9539 255 21732 208 13640 Page 6 of 16Annexure-III Details of Cooperative Training Programmes conducted by the State of Jharkhand: Year District Cooperative Society Course Details Participants Ranchi, Khunti, Gumla, Lohardaga, Co-operative Act, 304 PACS/LAMPS (MPCS) Simdega, Saraikela, Rule, Audit Palamu, Latehar, Garhwa, Koderma, 2023- Chatra, Bokaro, 2024 Ramgarh, Harzaribagh, Special Type Societies 210 Do Chaibasa, (JSLPS) Chakardharpur, Ghatshila, Jamshedpur Total:- 514 Co-operative Act, Rule, Audit, PACS/LAMPS (MPCS) 409 Computerization of PACS ERP Module Co-operative Act, Credit Co-operative Rule, Audit, Scheme 21 Ranchi, Khunti, Societies of Dept Gumla, Lohardaga, Simdega, Saraikela, Housing Co-operative Do 17 Palamu, Latehar, Societies Garhwa, Koderma, Weaver Co-operative 2024- Chatra, Bokaro, Do 44 Societies 2025 Ramgarh, Harzaribagh, Fisheries Co-operative Do 57 Chaibasa, Societies Chakardharpur, Ghatshila, Self Supporting Do 34 Jamshedpur Co-operative Societies Vegetable Co-operative Do 14 Societies FPO Do 25 Total:- 621 2025- Ranchi, Khunti, PACS/LAMPS (MPCS) Co-operative Act, 449 2026 Gumla, Lohardaga, Rule, Audit, Page 7 of 16Year District Cooperative Society Course Details Participants Simdega, Saraikela, computerization of Palamu, Latehar, PACS ERP Module Garhwa, Koderma, Special Types Co-operative Act, 142 Chatra, Bokaro, Rule, Audit, Scheme Ramgarh, of Dept Harzaribagh, Credit Co-operative Do 39 Chaibasa, Societies Chakardharpur, Weaver Co-operative Do 40 Ghatshila, Societies Jamshedpur Vegetable Co-operative Do 24 Societies Housing Co-operative Do 22 Societies Fisheries Co-operative Do 78 Societies Self Supporting Do 41 Co-operative Societies FPO Do 13 Dairy Co-operative Do 20 Societies Total:- 868 Page 8 of 16Annexure-IV Training Details: PACS Computerization Sr. Cumulative number of PACS Name of State/UT No. trained 1 Andaman and Nicobar Islands 46 2 Andhra Pradesh 1972 3 Arunachal Pradesh 14 4 Assam 552 5 Bihar 4421 6 Chhattisgarh 2028 Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and 7 4 Diu 8 Goa 25 9 Gujarat 5754 10 Haryana 710 11 Himachal Pradesh 1698 12 Jammu and Kashmir 533 13 Jharkhand 1386 14 Karnataka 5238 15 Ladakh 7 16 Madhya Pradesh 4536 17 Maharashtra 12000 18 Manipur 208 19 Meghalaya 108 20 Mizoram 25 21 Nagaland 178 22 Puducherry 45 23 Punjab 3282 24 Rajasthan 6773 25 Sikkim 107 26 Tamil Nadu 4532 27 Tripura 239 28 Uttar Pradesh 3062 29 Uttarakhand 670 30 West Bengal 3326 Total 63479 Page 9 of 16Annexure-V Details of training programmes conducted by Bankers Institute of Rural Development (BIRD) during last 3 years assisted under Cooperative Development Fund (CDF) FY 2023-24 Training No. of programs No. of participants Establishment conducted BIRD, Lucknow 24 636 BIRD Mangaluru 06 180 BIRD Kolkata 16 434 Total 46 1250 FY 2024-25 Training No. of programs No. of participants Establishment conducted BIRD, Lucknow 24 698 BIRD, Mangaluru 11 305 BIRD, Kolkata 15 413 Total 50 1416 FY 2025-26 Training No. of programs conducted No. of participants Establishment BIRD, Lucknow 25 653 BIRD, Mangaluru 21 562 BIRD, Kolkata 14 406 Total 60 1621 TOTAL - FY 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 Training No. of programs conducted No. of participants Establishment BIRD, Lucknow 73 1987 BIRD, Mangaluru 38 1047 BIRD, Kolkata 45 1253 Total 156 4287 Page 10 of 16Annexure-VI SOFTCOB training programmes details FY 2023-24, 2024-25 and 2025-26 S.N STATE_NAME FY_2023_24 FY_2024_25 FY_2025_26 O No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of SOFTCO Officia SOFTCO Officia SOFTCO Officia B ls B ls B ls Programm Traine Programm Traine Programm Traine es d es d es d Conducte Conducte Conducte d d d 1 ANDAMAN & 1 25 0 0 0 0 NICOBAR 2 ANDHRA PRADESH 97 2,911 81 1,946 114 2,998 3 ARUNACHAL 2 55 3 75 10 293 PRADESH 4 ASSAM 26 873 28 840 26 839 5 BIHAR 7 157 11 194 3 87 6 CHHATTISGARH 0 0 0 0 0 0 7 DELHI 0 0 0 0 0 0 8 GOA 2 74 3 90 2 61 9 GUJARAT 71 2,152 70 2,160 66 1,878 10 HARYANA 54 1,277 57 1,351 17 365 11 HIMACHAL 37 989 46 1,284 54 1,633 PRADESH 12 JAMMU KASHMIR 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 JHARKHAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 14 KARNATAKA 59 1,630 62 1,717 45 1,240 15 KERALA 108 3,150 132 3,509 116 3,193 16 MADHYA 73 2,689 98 3,505 96 3,298 PRADESH 17 MAHARASHTRA 99 2,595 91 2,097 74 1,911 18 MANIPUR 13 383 12 343 0 0 19 MEGHALAYA 6 174 6 178 3 87 20 MIZORAM 0 0 2 60 2 60 21 NAGALAND 0 0 0 0 0 0 22 ODISHA 68 2,002 63 1,728 60 1,756 23 PUDUCHERRY 0 0 0 0 0 0 24 PUNJAB 182 4,158 75 1,655 73 1,650 25 RAJASTHAN 49 1,003 61 1,432 59 1,451 26 SIKKIM 0 0 0 0 0 0 27 TAMIL NADU 204 5,055 191 4,350 183 6,230 Page 11 of 16S.N STATE_NAME FY_2023_24 FY_2024_25 FY_2025_26 O No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of No. of SOFTCO Officia SOFTCO Officia SOFTCO Officia B ls B ls B ls Programm Traine Programm Traine Programm Traine es d es d es d Conducte Conducte Conducte d d d 28 TELANGANA 115 2,805 102 2,515 119 3,310 29 TRIPURA 0 0 0 0 0 0 30 UTTAR PRADESH 92 3,169 126 3,873 120 3,655 31 UTTARAKHAND 29 724 28 639 28 577 32 WEST BENGAL 57 1,751 44 1,260 138 4,053 TOTAL 1,451 39,801 1,392 36,801 1,408 40,625 Page 12 of 16Annexure-VII Capacity Building of PACS Secretaries on CSC Services Sr. Name of the NCCT State Target Achieved No. Institute Nos No. of Nos No. of of Training of Training PACS Batch PACS Batch 1 ICM, Bhopal MADHYA PRADESH 1900 38 2180 49 CHHATTISGARH 650 13 754 16 2 ICM, Bhubaneswar ODISHA 500 10 445 10 3 ICM, Chennai & Madurai TAMIL NADU 3800 76 4097 60 PUDUCHERRY 50 1 24 1 4 ICM, Dehradun UTTARAKHAND 500 10 581 10 5 ICM, Guwahati ASSAM 550 11 541 18 MEGHALAYA 50 1 58 3 MIZORAM 0 0 11 1 6 ICM, Jaipur RAJASTHAN 4350 87 3928 85 7 ICM, Lucknow UTTAR PRADESH 4450 89 4029 96 8 ICM, Hyderabad TELANGANA 350 7 380 8 ANDHRA PRADESH 1600 32 1812 30 9 RICM, Bengaluru KARNATAKA 950 19 1148 19 10 RICM, Chandigarh HIMACHAL PRADESH 600 12 522 12 JAMMU AND KASHMIR 400 8 417 10 HARYANA 150 3 164 4 PUNJAB 700 14 773 25 11 RICM, Gandhinagar GUJARAT 1550 31 1475 34 12 RICM, Kalyani TRIPURA 150 3 161 4 WEST BENGAL 50 1 27 1 SIKKIM 0 0 16 1 13 RICM, Patna BIHAR 2250 45 2096 57 JHARKHAND 950 19 754 24 14 VAMNICOM Pune MAHARASHTRA 3500 70 3817 70 15 NCCT 61 1 GRAND TOTAL 30000 600 30271 649 Page 13 of 16Annexure-VIII Training of MPCS - June 2025 to June 2026 No. of Distri S. Program Particip MPACS/MDCS cts N Unit Name State Covered mes ants /MFCS Covered Cove o. Conduct Trained red ed VAMNICOM, 1 PUNE Maharashtra 13 667 84 5 RICM 2 Bengaluru Karnataka 6 298 84 14 RICM Himachal Pradesh, 3 Chandigarh Haryana 24 949 202 19 RICM 4 Gandhinagar Gujarat 72 3,115 494 55 5 RICM Patna Bihar 4 200 4 2 West Bengal, 6 RICM Kalyani Tripura 32 1,500 272 32 7 ICM Bhopal Madhya Pradesh 3 83 19 3 ICM 8 Bhubaneswar Odisha 5 160 28 2 NICM 9 Chennai Tamil Nadu 2 45 11 7 ICM 10 Dehradun Uttarakhand 5 129 61 3 ICM Assam, Mizoram, 11 Guwahati Meghalaya 16 636 281 15 ICM 12 Hyderabad Telangana 11 311 75 13 13 ICM Imphal Manipur 10 351 80 8 14 ICM Lucknow Uttar Pradesh 45 2,613 697 67 15 ICM Madurai Tamil Nadu 2 60 18 8 16 ICM Nagpur Maharashtra 7 354 40 3 17 ICM Pune Maharashtra 3 121 46 1 Total 260 11592 2496 257 Page 14 of 16Annexure-IX Unit-wise village level Cooperative Awareness Programmes (Scaling up) data from 2022-23 to 2026-27 (up to June, 2026) S. Name of the Institutes 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 Total Jurisdiction No (states) No. of No. of No. No. of No. No. of No. No. of No. No. No. No. of Prog Part. of Part. of Part. of Part. of of of Part. Prog Prog Prog Prog Part. Prog 1 VAMNICOM, Pune 48 6387 115 10558 35 3970 100 5625 0 0 298 26540 All India 2 RICM, Bengaluru 27 4225 56 9072 104 12574 141 12055 17 761 345 38687 Karnataka 3 RICM, Chandigarh 100 9445 70 6330 50 4338 108 7462 38 1863 366 29438 Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh, Himachal Pradesh, J&K and Delhi 4 RICM, Gandhinagar 68 7420 120 9000 168 7709 230 10000 65 5833 651 39962 Gujarat 5 RICM, Kalyani 92 6935 106 9011 71 6194 10 912 0 0 279 23052 West Bengal, Sikkim, Tripura, A&N 6 RICM, Patna 19 830 86 5637 72 3781 71 4041 21 494 269 14783 Bihar, Jharkhand 7 ICM, Bhopal 54 6822 101 5631 94 4804 35 2403 23 1366 307 21026 Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh 8 ICM, Bhubaneswar 85 7991 124 6108 127 4463 157 5962 23 1093 516 25617 Orissa 9 ICM, Chennai 27 3253 55 10855 40 8016 103 16462 34 3762 259 42348 Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry 10 ICM, Dehradun 147 7883 73 3538 37 1788 33 1434 6 271 296 14914 Uttarakhand Page 15 of 16S. Name of the Institutes 2022-23 2023-24 2024-25 2025-26 2026-27 Total Jurisdiction No (states) No. of No. of No. No. of No. No. of No. No. of No. No. No. No. of Prog Part. of Part. of Part. of Part. of of of Part. Prog Prog Prog Prog Part. Prog 11 ICM, Guwahati 76 7577 53 8141 33 4161 46 12844 19 748 227 33471 Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Mizoram 12 ICM, Hyderabad 54 6979 75 7473 114 7259 96 3130 27 711 366 25552 Andhra Pradesh, Telangana 13 ICM, Imphal 60 7315 55 4267 27 1651 70 3386 14 485 226 17104 Manipur, Nagaland 14 ICM, Jaipur 69 5044 214 8325 22 1201 115 8108 42 3832 462 26510 Rajasthan 15 ICM, Kannur 43 6461 79 9976 122 20798 254 27662 52 2668 550 67565 Kerala 16 ICM, Lucknow 65 5585 36 1962 47 3868 44 4220 11 778 203 16413 Uttar Pradesh 17 ICM,Madurai 54 6154 94 8065 41 4626 100 10014 12 1118 301 29977 Tamil Nadu, Pondicherry 18 ICM, Nagpur 77 5340 97 7325 104 5699 129 7128 24 983 431 26475 Maharashtra, Goa 19 ICM, Pune 187 8215 138 8919 54 3783 113 2922 16 347 508 24186 Maharashtra, Goa 20 ICM,Thiruvananthapuram 122 4329 133 12787 53 11760 137 25119 15 2987 460 56982 Kerala Total 1474 124190 1880 152980 1415 122443 2092 170889 459 30100 7320 600602 ***** Page 16 of 16