ICA Director Mr.  Jakhar Inaugurated the 86^th International Cooperative Day in Kathmandu

Director, International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) and IFFCO Chairman Mr. Surindra Kumar Jakhar inaugurated the 86^th International Cooperative Day, 14^th UN International Day of Cooperatives and 15^th National Cooperative Federation Day celebration program on the 1^st Saturday of July in a special ceremony organized by NCF/N at Kathmandu, Nepal. The International Cooperative Day used to be observed every year on the 1st Saturday of July every year through out the world with the call of United Nation and International Cooperative Alliance. NCF/N observed International Cooperative Day this year also with the international theme – "Confronting Climate Change through Cooperative enterprise" as it was recommended by UN & ICA to observe the Day with the theme.

Addressing in the program, Mr. Jakhar emphasized on the need of contribution of each cooperators for protecting the environment of universe for the beautiful future. He had distributed the excellent cooperative business Awards and excellent Cooperative Awards – 2008 to the 8 cooperatives of different disciplines which were announced in the 51th National Cooperative Day  last month after it was  recommended by the national prize committee to NCF. NCF Chairman and ICA AP Standing Committee member Mr. Deepak Prakash Banskota, congratulating to all prize winner cooperatives, expressed his vote of thanks to all dignitaries attended in the special ceremony. Mr. Noriaki Niwa, Chairperson, JICA Nepal Office,  NCF/N advisors, Member of Board of Directors, Government representatives, representative from the central federations, National Cooperative Bank, district cooperative Unions, primary cooperatives were also present on the occasion.

At the ceremony Mr. Jakhar, ICA Director and IFFCO Chairman were felicitated by NCF/N on behalf of Nepalese Cooperative movement for his significant contribution in strengthening the Indian Cooperative movement. Dr. G.N. Saxena, Director, IFFCO, was also appreciated as guest of honour for his invaluable cooperation in providing training and exchange visit to Nepalese cooperators.

IFFCO-NCF Training Program concluded at Pokhara, Nepal

ICA Director and IFFCO Chairman Mr. Surindra Kumar Jakhar also inaugurated the IFFCO – NCF training program on the Role of Manager for Effective Cooperative Management organized jointly by the National Cooperative Federation of Nepal and Indian Farmers' Fertilizer Cooperatives (IFFCO), New Delhi, in Pokhara, Nepal on July 6, 2008. Speaking as Chief Guest, in the opening session of the training, Mr. Jakhar emphasized on the need of strong management in the Cooperatives. He believed that the training would be helpful for enhancing the capacity of managerial level cooperators.

Speaking from the chair, NCF/N chairman & ICA –AP Standing committee Member Mr. Deepak Prakash Banskota informed that the training program was organized both ICA member organizations collaborately with the spirit of mutual cooperation as there was high demand of such high level training. Expressing his gratitude over the attendance of all guest and participants in the program, Mr. Banskota urged to all participants to take maximum advantage out of the training.

The chief guest, international resource person, other guest and participants were welcomed by Mr. Dilli Ram Tiwari, Member of Board of Director, NCF/N.  Dr. G.N. Saxena, Director, (CD) IFFCO, Senior General Manager, (HRD) IFFCO Shree D. Bhattacharya, NCF/N General Manager Mr. Ram Bhajan Shah and other distinguished guest were also present in the occasion.

Basically, the various aspects of sound cooperative management were discussed theoretically and practically by the expert/resource persons Dr. Saxena, and shree Bhattacharya through out the training period.   6 senior level manager from different unit of IFFCO, India and 22 executive level officials including 4 female from the central, districts federations and other cooperative organizations from Nepal were participated in the 4 days training program including field visit.

In the concluding ceremony, the certificates of participation were distributed by the Chief resource person for the training shree D. Bhattacharya. After distributing the certificates, shree Bhattacharya appealed to the participants to translate the knowledge and skill received throughout the training for the sound and effective management of their cooperatives in order to provide the competitive products and services to the members in the context of liberalized market economy.

Speaking from the chair in the concluding ceremony Mr. Dilli Ram Tiwari, Member of Board of Directors of NCF/N informed about the external training policy of NCF/N for the support of cooperatives for their effective operation.

 Mr. Babul Khanal, Manager, Project & Development Department of NCF/N expressed his sincere gratitude to all distinguished guest, resource person, national & international participants and other cooperative organizations for their encouragement, untried effort, active involvement and  invaluable cooperation for the successful completion of the program.

Mr. Hiramani Bhandari, Chairman of District Cooperative Union, Kaski, Mr. Dhurba Raj Neupane, Principal, Division & Cooperative Training Centre, Kaski, Mr. Bhim Gurung, Chairman, District Savings and Credit Cooperative Union, Kaski were also present in the closing session. 

In a farewell ceremony organized by NCF/N in its office at Kathmandu, Shree D. Bhattacharya were felicitated by Mr. Banskota on behalf of the NCF/N and Nepalese cooperative movement for his invaluable contribution to Nepalese cooperators for increasing their knowledge through training and  exchange  visit program in  India.

In the farewell session, Mr. Bijaya Raj Ghimire, Member of Board of Director, NCF/N shortly briefed about the NCF/N activities and the status of Nepalese Cooperative Movement to the Indian Delegates.  NCF/N Vice Chairman Mr. Om Prakash Sharma, Member of Board of Director of NCF/N Mr Rishi Raj Acharya, Mr Krishna Prasad Neupane, Mr. Ram Charan Tharu, Mr.Bhoj Bahadur Bam, Account Convener, Mr K. B. Upreti, General Manager Mr. Ram Bhajan Shah, other Managers and NCF staff were also attended in the ceremony and heartily welcomed to the international guests. On this occasion, NCF/N Chairman Mr. Banskota, provided the token of love to the resource person and IFFCO participants for the program.