Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit Shah will attend the 5th Foundation Day Ceremony of the Ministry of Cooperation at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 6 July 2026. The ceremony is being held in line with the vision of "Sahakar Se Samriddhi" of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and under the leadership of Shri Amit Shah, who has guided the cooperative sector towards greater transparency, technology adoption, institutional strengthening and grassroots empowerment.
Several major projects and initiatives will be launched during the ceremony, including the inauguration of 232 grain storage godowns under the world's largest grain storage scheme. The transformation of 50,000 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) into e-PACS will mark a significant step towards digital empowerment of grassroots cooperative institutions.
Foundation stone ceremonies include the Bhoomi Pujan of 'Sahakar Van', a 64-acre cooperative forestation project by Amul and NCCF, and Bhoomi Pujan of tissue culture facilities of Bharatiya Beej Sahkari Samiti Limited (BBSSL) at Barabanki in Uttar Pradesh and Jalgaon in Maharashtra.
Digital initiatives include the launch of NCD 3.0 and geo-tag mobile application, NDDB's Milk Supply Review Dashboard Portal, and two major initiatives of National Urban Cooperative Finance and Development Corporation Limited (NUCFDC) - Sahakar CBS (a centralized core banking platform) and Sahakar Sahyogi (a conversational AI-powered platform for Urban Cooperative Banks).
The program will also feature the inauguration of Cooperative Milk Producers Organisation Multi-State Limited and Gomay Cooperative Society Multi-State Limited, along with initiatives related to productivity of dairy animals under Cooperative Inputs and Services Delivery Multi-State Limited.
A Memorandum of Understanding will be signed between BBSSL and ICAR for strengthening seed systems. Model bye-laws for dairy cooperative societies will be released, along with a book highlighting the achievements of the Ministry of Cooperation during the last five years.
The event will be attended by Shri Rajiv Ranjan Singh alias Lalan Singh (Union Minister of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying and Panchayati Raj), Shri Bhajan Lal Sharma (Chief Minister of Rajasthan), Shri Krishan Pal Gurjar (Minister of State for Cooperation), and Shri Murlidhar Mohol (Minister of State for Cooperation and Civil Aviation). Senior officers from various ministries and representatives of national cooperative institutions, cooperative federations, cooperative banks, dairy cooperatives, Bharat Taxi, PACS and other stakeholders from the cooperative sector will also attend.