Pune's Vamnicom becomes TSU's first affiliate institute
Earlier this month, Union home and cooperation minister
Amit Shah
laid the foundation stone of TSU, India's first cooperative university, which is taking shape in milk city Anand.
The affiliation has been extended to four academic programmes and six certificate courses that will be conducted by the Pune institute under the aegis of TSU to bolster the mandate of cooperative development.
The agreement was signed in the presence of Dr J M Vyas, vice-chancellor of TSU, Dr Umakant Dash, director of the Institute of Rural Management Anand, and Dr Suva Kanta Mohanty, Vamnicom's director, at the campus of TSU.
"The occasion provided fillip to the cooperative sector whose transformation was envisioned by Prime Minister Narendra Modi with the vision of 'Sahkar Se Samriddhi'. TSU was established to provide specialized education, training and research opportunities in areas such as cooperative management, finance, law and rural development," an official said.
"It will empower cooperative institutions at the grassroots level by promoting innovation, capacity building and best practices, improve governance and accelerate inclusive and sustainable rural economic development," he said.
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