NEW DELHI, NOVEMBER 22, 2024: Prime Minister Narendra Modi will launch the ‘United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025’ at International Cooperative Alliance’s (ICA) global conference to be held in the national capital on Monday (November 25, 2024).
Union Cooperation Minister Amit Shah will attend the event on November 25 and chair the inaugural session of the Global Cooperative Conference as Chief Guest.
First time in the 130 years long history of the ICA, the premier body for the global cooperative movement, with the initiative of IFFCO, the ICA General Assembly and Global Cooperative Conference will be hosted by India. The event is scheduled to be held during November 25-30, 2025.
Addressing a press conference, Cooperation Secretary Ashish Kumar Bhutani informed that the Prime Minister will formally launch the ‘United Nations International Year of Cooperatives 2025’ during the inaugural session of the event on November 25. A commemorative stamp on International Year of Cooperatives – 2025 will also be launched in the event.
Around 3,000 delegates are expected to attend this event and out of that 1,000 will be delegates from foreign countries, he added. Institute of Cooperative Management senior faculty and programme director Dr SLNT Srinivas and others were also present.
