Cooperative Model Best Suited For India's Development: Amit Shah

The Amul model is an example of what one can achieve when 36 lakh people work together, Amit Shah said.

The cooperative model of economic development is the only one which will work to achieve an all-encompassing and all-inclusive development of India which has a population of 130 crore, Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.

Addressing a gathering after inaugurating a milk powder factory, a poly film manufacturing plant and other projects of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF) here, Mr Shah said the cooperative model has the capacity to make everyone prosperous, and Amul is a living example of it.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi had recognised cooperative as the best economic model for the country of 130 crore population when he was the chief minister of Gujarat, he said.

Mr Shah said taking development to all and making it work in a country with a population of 130 crore is a difficult job, while several other economic models work for countries with much lesser population than India.