THIRUVANANTHAPURAM:The Cabinet meeting on Wednesday approved the draft cooperative policy of the state government. The draft policy has envisaged creating a conducive environment for ensuring an independent and autonomous functioning of all cooperatives institutions in the state.
The draft policy also suggests to acknowledge cooperatives as a means to implement the developmental programmes of the state and the Centre. The proposals of the draft policy included bringing necessary changes in the recruitment process of the cooperatives after reviewing the current system, introducing professionalism in the Cooperative Department and empowering women through the cooperative system. To make the cooperative sector fit to meet the demands of the youth, use the skill excellence of NRIs for the development of the society, and develop cooperative hospitals societies to provide affordable treatment to commoners and form tourist societies in the cooperative sector are some of the other proposals in the draft policy.