Rural Credit and Cooperative Development Book

Contents: Preface. I. Cooperative development: 1. Governance in cooperative banks: need for reforms/Katar Singh. 2. Village cooperatives–a century of service to the nation/B.R. Nair. 3. Challenges before cooperatives/Shantanu Ghosh. 4. Cooperative processing in rural development/L.P. Singh. 5. Cooperation as an instrument of rural development/Katar Singh. 6. Modern management approach to strengthen Agri-business cooperatives/L.P. Singh. 7. Empowerment benefits of cooperation/B. Subburaj and R. Karunakaran. 8. Cooperative education for cooperative development/U.M. Shah. 9. Agriculture and cooperatives in liberalised era/P.S. Sharma. 10. Cooperative financing for agricultural development/Sawalia Bihari Verma. 11. What makes cooperative tick?/B.S. Baviskar. 12. Transformation of cooperative societies into producer companies/Aseem Bhargava. 13. The national policy on cooperatives: a critical appraisal/Katar Singh. 14. Women Dairy cooperatives/V.M. Rao. 15. Milk producers' cooperative societies: performance indicators/Basavaraj S. Benni. 16. Withering weavers' cooperatives and policy implications/Samwel Kakuko Lopoyetum and D. Joseph Nelson. 17. On the emergence and survival of cooperation/Katar Singh. 18. Why and how cooperatives excel?/Archna Sood. 19. Role of cooperatives in environment protection /U.M. Shah. II. Rural credit: 20. Rural credit at cross-roads/S. Kanthimathinathan. 21. Problems in the recovery of rural credit/K. Sivaloganathan. 22. Expert committee on rural credit: findings and recommendations/Medha Dubhashi. 23. IT for better rural credit delivery/S.S. Satchidananda and Srinatha Srinivasa. 24. Microcredit and role of banks: need for initiatives and commitment/Amrit Patel. 25. Financing for sustainable rural development/A.R. Patel. 26. Cooperative credit in rural India/K.K. Tripathy. 27. Credit deepening in farm and non-farm sectors/Gautam Purkayastha. 28. Rural credit scenario in North East India/Jayanta Kumar Gogoi. 29. Innovations in Microfinance: linked development programmes/A.N. Sarkar. 30. Rural credit delivery: reaching the unreached/G. Srinivasan. 31. Rural credit: need for banks' initiatives/A.R. Patel. 32. Regional rural banks: performance evaluation/T. Srinivas Prasad. 33. Indian banking system and microfinance/J.C. Mishra and R.K. Thanvi. 34. Making social banking purposive/Badruzzama Siddiqui. 35. Microfinance institutions of Bangladesh: lessons for India/Navin Bhatia and Anju Bhatia. Index.

"Cooperatives like village panchayats are institutional agencies for achieving social cohesion. In a country whose economic structure has its roots in the village, cooperation is something more than a series of activities organised on cooperative lines; basically its purpose is to evolve a system of cooperative community organisation which touches upon all aspects of life. Cooperation, therefore, means an obligation towards all families in the village community and the development of resources and of social services in the common interest of the village as a whole. This is the underlying approach in setting cooperative village  management on the main direction of reorganisation in the rural economy." (jacket)