KARIMNAGAR, JULY 11, 2025: District Cooperative Officer Ramanuja Charyulu has assured all assistance for the Cooperative Students club at the Government Degree College for women in Karimnagar town.
Participating as Chief Guest at the Formation of the Cooperative Students club at GDC for women (autonomous) in Karimnagar town on Friday, the DCO said that the United Nations declared the International Year of Cooperatives in the year 2012 and 2025. The year’s theme is “Cooperatives Build a Better World”. He said that the cooperative societies have a long history spanning more than a century in India.
Explaining the importance of cooperatives, Mr Charyulu said that cooperative societies are crucial for fostering economic and social development, particularly for marginalised communities, by promoting self-reliance, mutual support, and equitable distribution of resources. They empower members through access to markets, credit, and essential services, while also encouraging democratic participation and social responsibility, he added.
Referring to the success of the Karimnagar District Cooperative Central Bank (DCCB), he said that the DCCB was in doldrums till 2005 and made a turnaround with the entry of its chairman Konduru Ravinder Rao and now the bank emerged as a role model cooperative bank in the country and several national and international since one decade.
About the suggestion of college Principal D Varalakshmi to help the college cooperative student club grow flowers and other saplings and sell to the customers and make money while studying, the DCO said that he would talk to the Horticulture officials and ensure that the girl students take up cultivation of flower and saplings and sell the same through a cooperative society. At least 40 members were formed as club members in the college.
The DCO assured the club members to organise an exposure visit to the successful PACS and Banks and educate them on the importance of cooperation of together we can progress. Quoting that several leaders, including Union Minister Amit Shah, former CM K Chandrashekhar Rao, state minister Ponnam Prabhakar and others had come from the cooperatives, he reminded the students they would also learn leadership qualities through cooperative clubs. Karimnagar DCCB chairman N Satyanarayana Rao and others were also present.
