Mumbai, July 7 (IANS) In a significant move aimed at strengthening the cooperative credit structure and curbing local political rivalries, the MahaYuti government on Tuesday introduced a bill in the state assembly to amend the Maharashtra Cooperative Societies Act, 1960. The bill makes it mandatory for cooperative societies to grant membership and extend crop loans to any farmer who owns at least 10 gunthas of land. The bill was tabled by Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil.Local political fact…
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Mumbai, June 29 (IANS) Co-operation Minister, Babasaheb Patil, said in the Legislative Assembly on Monday that the government has taken a serious note of the rising instances of illegal moneylending across Maharashtra over the past few years and has initiated preparations to amend the existing laws.Since 2022, loans disbursed by moneylenders in the state have seen a surge of Rs 400 crore. The formal banking sector has made disbursement of Rs 12,415 crore during the same period.The discussion was…
Mumbai, March 24 (IANS) Maharashtra Minister of Cooperation Babasaheb Patil on Tuesday announced in the State Council that the government will soon release a comprehensive new cooperation policy to further push for the development of the sector. He claimed that the cooperative sector is a model for social and economic transformation. He was responding to a short-duration discussion initiated by member Pravin Darekar under Rule 97.He told the House that a 15-member committee has been es…
Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Maharashtra Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil on Friday said that to address the recurring cycle of debt, the state government has established a high-level committee on October 30, 2025. The committee is tasked with recommending both short-term and long-term measures to free farmers from the “debt trap.”In a written reply to a question raised by members Shiv Sena-UBT leader Bhaskar Jadhav, BJP leader Prashant Thakur and others, the minister informed the state Assembly th…
Mumbai, Feb 27 (IANS) Maharashtra Cooperation Minister Babasaheb Patil on Friday announced the immediate suspension of the Assistant Registrar in connection with the Anand Cooperative Housing Society scam in Nagpur Rural. This decision follows a forceful intervention by Congress Legislative Party Leader Vijay Wadettiwar, who exposed irregularities regarding the illegal sale of land reserved for public utilities. The Minister was replying to a question by members Dharmrao Atram and Nerendra Bhind…
Mumbai, Feb 2 (IANS) Days after Sunetra Pawar was sworn in as the Deputy Chief Minister of Maharashtra, over 30 different cells of the Nationalist Congress Party (NCP) have written to the party’s Working President Praful Patel and state President Sunil Tatkare demanding that she be made National President of the party, the post held by her late husband Ajit Pawar.”The passing of Hon. Ajit dada Pawar, the pillar and visionary leader of the Nationalist Congress Party, has cast a deep shadow of gri…