Name of Regional Directorate: Hyderabad
Jurisdiction: State of Andhra Pradesh & Telangana
Address of Regional Directorate: National Cooperative Development Corporation, No.5-10-193, 2nd Floor, HACA Bhavan, Opp. Public Garden, Saifabad, HYDERABAD-500004
Name of Regional Director: Sh. V. K. Dubasi
Contact details of Regional Directorate: Ph.: 040-23233760, 09311765342 Fax: 040-23240615,
E-Mail:[email protected],
Google Map link (Route map of Directorate):
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Andhra Pradesh
Cooperatives in Andhra Pradesh:
| S.No. | Category of Societies | Number |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Level Cooperative Organizations | 10 |
| 2 | Dist. Central Co-operative Banks | 13 |
| 3 | Primary Credit Coop: Societies | 2037 |
| 4 | Dairy Coops | 90 |
| 5 | Marketing Coop | 13 |
| 6 | Tribal Coops | 1 |
| 7 | Handloom Coops | 470 |
| 8 | Coop: Sugar Mills | 10 |
| 9 | Service Sector Coops | 1414 |
| 10 | Other type of societies | 63210 |
| Total | 67268 |
Implementation of NCDC Programmes:
Financial support by NCDC:
The financial assistance provided by NCDC as on 31st March 2021 in Andhra Pradesh is Rs. 4586.42 crore (from the year 1962- 2014, NCDC financial assistance has been worked out as per A.P. Reorganisation Act-2014, wherein, the share of Andhra Pradesh State is fixed as 58%). The year-wise details of assistance provided for Andhra Pradesh State is given as under:
| S.No. | Scheme/Activity | Cumulative Disbursements as on 31.03.2021(Rs.in crore) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marketing & Inputs | 1096.48 |
| 2 | Processing | 690.04 |
| 3 | Storage | 37.94 |
| 4 | Consumers | 3.5 |
| 5 | Weaker Sections | 317.15 |
| 6 | Promotional & Dev. Programmes | 1.65 |
| 7 | ICDP | 284.72 |
| 8 | Computerisation & others etc. | 1.77 |
| 9 | Fruits & Vegetables | 0.05 |
| 10 | Industrial & Service Cooperatives | 2152.95 |
| 11 | Yuva Sahakar | 0.17 |
| Total | 4586.42 |
Sector wise cumulative disbursements
Cumulative Disbursements as on 31.03.2021 (Rs in Crore)
Highlights of the programmes assisted and other achievements during the last 5 years (2016-17 to 2020-21):
- Nurturing of cooperatives by encouraging and assisting them to undertake new ventures & expansion, business development. Provided necessary guidance and support in availing financial assistance.
- Publishing Articles in Cooperative Union monthly journals, Sahakara Samacharam and NCDC Quarterly e-newsletter.
- Training Primary Cooperative Society’s personnel at LINAC Regional Training Centre, Hyderabad.
- Publication of book titled “Insects, pests and diseases of major crops in India” for the benefit of farmers and translation of the book from English to Telugu.
- Providing orientation classes to ICM trainees (Direct recruitment of Asst. Registrar batch).
- Nomination of cooperative societies for Krishi Mela held in New Delhi and Odisha.<
- Providing NEDAC membership to six federations of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
- Telangana and Andhra Pradesh representatives from Mulkanoor Bank, Telangana Markfed and AP Markfed participated in the General Assembly Session of NEDAC, and voted for the election of Office bearers of NEDAC Executive Committee.
- Nearly 15 Cooperative Federations/Societies participated in IICTF 2019 from Telangana and Andhra Pradesh. Telangana state also received the ‘Award for Excellence’ at the event.
- Participation of the Chief Director, NCDC Hyderabad in the 2nd Co-operative Registrars’ Forum on “Creating enabling legal frameworks and policies to promote sustainable development of co-operatives in the 21st century” at Vietnam, to discuss trends in the 21st century and their impact on co-operatives, and legislation and policies that affect co-operatives in relation to new and emerging areas.
New Initiatives in the Region during Year F.Y. 2020-21:
- The potential of Cooperatives Societies visited under SAHAKAR - 22 will be explored further.
- Financial assistance in the Processing sector will be further tapped.
- Working Capital needs of Marketing & Inputs Cooperatives as well as District Cooperative Central Banks (DCCBs) will be further explored.
- Training Primary Cooperative Society’s personnel at LINAC Regional Training Centre, Hyderabad.
- ICDP-II Phase in the Districts i.e. East Godavari, Kurnool& Chittoor with total outlay of Rs.186.60 crore, Rs.201.61 crore & Rs.242.45 crore.
Initiatives for development of Aspirational Districts (identified by NITI Aayog) through Cooperatives:
As on 31.03.2021, financial assistance of Rs 9.45 crore has been disbursed in the Aspirational districts of Andhra Pradesh.
| Name of Aspirational Districts | Project details | Name of beneficiary | Disbursements (Rs. In Crore) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kadapah | Small Ruminant development project in 11 districts of AP | Andhra Pradesh Sheep & Goat development Cooperative Federation | 2.02 |
| Visakhapatnam | 3.05 | ||
| Vizianagaram | 4.38 | ||
| TOTAL | 9.45 | ||
LINAC Regional Training Centre, Hyderabad:
NCDC-LINAC has set up 18 Regional Training Centers of LINAC across the country, with an objective to extend the scope and reach of LINAC and to focus on nurturing the Primary Level Cooperative Societies. RTC, Hyderabad has successfully completed four training programmes during 2020-21. The details are as below:
(i) Training programme on “General Management in Primary Level Cooperatives” organized from 30.06.2021 & 01.07.2021.
(ii) Training programme on “Business Development & Assets Management” organized from 16th & 17th July, 2021.
(iii) Training programme on “Accounts and Book Keeping in Primary Level Cooperatives” organized from 20th & 21st July, 2021.
(iv) Training Programme on “Role of Women Directors in Governance and Business Development” (For Cooperatives/SHGs in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana) organized from 4th & 5th November, 2021.
The training programmes were organized with the objective to enable the participants to:
- Recognize the cooperative identity, business dimension and principles.
- Identify the values and principles required for the success of the cooperatives.
- To access the business environment by SWOT analysis.
- To know the requirements of members and market.
- To understand the process to identify business opportunities.
Photographs of LINAC Regional Training Centre, Hyderabad
In addition to this, LINAC Regional Training Center, Hyderabad successfully organised the Unveiling event of Short Guidance Video on “How to form a Cooperative Society” in Andhra Pradesh State. The guidance video is availbale on NCDC Youtube Channel at : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTAEhLC56pI
Few glimpses of the unveiling event
Development Opportunities in the State through Cooperatives:
Schemes of State Government like YSR Rythu Bharosa as well as GoI interest subvention and other schemes will give boost to the agricultural sector. This in-turn may yield best crops, resulting in more storage needs. The cooperative storage capacity needs to be increased and processing activities by cooperatives will boost rural economy.
Success stories:
The Yendagandi Large Sized Cooperative Society Ltd, West Godavari District, Andhra Pradesh
Yendagandi LSCS is working towards the benefits of its members by providing credit as well as non credit activities. The various facilities provided by the society include:
- Introduction of computerisation in the year 1994-95.
- Timely loaning as per member needs.
- Lockers facilities, Gold loans.
- Computerised quick servic.
- Sales through 3 outlets.
- Mobile super bazar with competative rates.
- Door step banking & services.
- Providing fertilisers, pesticides and seeds.
- Providing agri-implements & storage facilities.
Apart from this, the society is doing extra ordinary efforts for welfare which includes:
- Collecting garbage from homes by providing rikshaws
- Operating schools, school buses and medical camps.
- Dress code and ID cards to staff for better efficiency.
NCDC has provided Yendagandi LSCS with a financial assistance as Margin Money Loan of Rs 22 lakh, including a subsidy of 4.4 lakh. The Society has also received NCDC Regional Awards for the year 2008 and 2010.
Srinivasapuram PACS, West Godavari District (Andhra Pradesh):
| Name – Name of Members – Smt.Polnati Varalaxmi (w/o Sri Raghu Ram) Village – Srinivasapuram Problem – took a loan of Rs. 4.15 lakh from the society to purchase Tractor Support from Society – the loan amount was used to purchase a Tractor. Doing agricultural work with the help of tractor has increased production. Also, I am giving Tractor on rent to the neighbouring farmers, which is supplementing my income. The loan was very useful for me and it is being repaid timely |
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The Financial performance of the PACS, Srinivasapuram, is given in the following table:
(Rs. in Lakh)
| S.no | Particulars | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | 2015-16 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Business Turnover | 125.27 | 162.92 | 120.21 |
| 2 | Cash Profit | 12.71 | 14.14 | 16.19 |
| 3 | Net Profit | 11.41 | 12.79 | 14.75 |
| 4 | Audit Classification | A | A | A |
Andhra Pradesh Stree Nidhi credit cooperative Federation Ltd.:
The SHGs in Andhra Pradesh are federated into Village Organisations (VOs) and Slum Level Federations (SLFs), These VOs and SLFs are further federated into Mandal Samakhyas (MSs) and Town Level Federations (TLFs) repectively. There are about 8.12 lakhs SHGs with total membership of 89.01 lakh SHG members in rural as well as urban area of AP.
Andhra Pradesh Stree Nidhi credit cooperative Federation Ltd., Vijayawada, provides timely and affordable credit to the poor SHG women as a part of the overall strategy of SERP for poverty alleviation. SHGs are comfortable to access hassle free credit from Stree Nidhi as and when they require and therefore do not see any need to borrow from other sources at usurious rates of interest. Stree Nidhi is in a position to extend credit to the SHG women even in far flung areas of the state within 48 hours to meet credit needs for Livelihood activities. As credit availability is linked to grading of MS and VOs, community is keen to improve functioning of the same to access higher amount of credit limits from Stree Nidhi.
Activities carried out by members of AP StreeNidhi
Telangana
Cooperatives in Telangana:
| S.No. | Category of Societies | Number of Societies |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | State Level Cooperative Organizations | 10 |
| 2 | Dist. Central Co-operative Banks | 9 |
| 3 | Primary Credit Coop: Societies | 906 |
| 4 | Dairy Coops | 657 |
| 5 | Marketing Coop< | 9 |
| 6 | Tribal Coops | 1 |
| 7 | Handloom Coops | 138 |
| 8 | Coop: Sugar Mills | 1 |
| 9 | Service Sector Coops | 1024 |
| 10 | Other type of societie | 62317 |
| Total | 65072 |
Implementation of NCDC Programmes:
Financial support by NCDC:
The financial assistance provided by NCDC as on 31st March 2021 in Telangana is Rs. 14698.71 crore (from the year 1962- 2014, NCDC financial assistance has been worked out as per A.P. Reorganisation Act-2014, wherein, the share of Telangana State is fixed as 42%). The year-wise details of assistance provided for Telangana State is given as under
| S.No. | Scheme/Activity | Cumulative Disbursements as on 31.03.2021(Rs.in crore) |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Marketing & Inputs | 8390.29 |
| 2 | Processing | 361.70 |
| 3 | Storage | 29.37 |
| 4 | Consumers | 2.36 |
| 5 | Weaker Section | 4940.06 |
| 6 | Promotional & Dev. Programmes | 0.88 |
| 7 | ICDP | 104.08 |
| 8 | Computerisation & others etc. | 1.47 |
| 9 | Industrial & Service Cooperatives | 868.39 |
| 10 | Corporate Social Responsibility | 0.1 |
| Total | 14698.71 |
Sector wise cumulative disbursements
Cumulative Disbursements as on 31.03.2021 (Rs in Crore)
Initiatives for development of Aspirational Districts (identified by NITI Aayog) through Cooperatives:
As on 31.03.2021, financial assistance of Rs.300.39 crore has been disbursed in the Aspirational districts of Telangana under SAHAKAR 22.
| Name of Aspirational Districts | Project details | Name of beneficiary | Amount Disbursements(Rs in Crore) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Asifabad | Livestock Development project in 30 districts of Telangana | Telangana State Sheep & Goat development Cooperative Federation | 21.13 |
| Bhoopalpalli | 85.54 | ||
| Khammam | 135.77 | ||
| Asifabad | Integrated Dev. Project in 31 districts of Telangana | Telangana State Fishermen Cooperative Societies Federation Ltd | 4.75 |
| Bhoopalpalli | 16.40 | ||
| Khammam | 34.80 | ||
| Asifabad | Induction of Milch Animals through dairy cooperatives in Telangana | Telangana State Dairy development Cooperative Federation | 0 |
| Bhoopalpall | 0.5 | ||
| Khammam | 1.5 | ||
| TOTAL | 300.39 | ||
LINAC Regional Training Centre, Hyderabad
In addition to the various trainings programmes conducted, LINAC Regional Training Center, Hyderabad also organised the Unveiling event of Short Guidance Video on “How to form a Cooperative Society” in Telangana State, on 2nd March 2021 with the APC and Principal Secretary (Agriculture & Cooperation), Govt. of Telangana, as chief guest.
The guidance video is availbale on NCDC Youtube Channel at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9kdPccCICE
Development Opportunities in the State through Cooperatives:
The state of Telangana comes under “cooperatively under developed State” category as classified by the NITI Ayog (formerly Planning Commission). The best efforts and various schemes of State Government like Mission Bhagiratha, Rhythu Bandhu as well as GoI schemes for irrigation facilities, interest subvention to farmers, subsidised seed etc. have boosted the agricultural sector and this in-turn will yield best crops raising more demand for NCDC funding mostly in storage and agro processing etc. This will further raise more working capital requirements for Federations / DCCBs / LSCS etc.
Success Stories:
Telangana State Fishermen Cooperative Societies Federation (TSFCOF), Hyderabad
Telangana State Fishermen Cooperative Federation Ltd., Hyderabad is an apex society, to provide inputs and service to the fishermen/ women cooperative societies through district fisheries cooperative societies for improvement of quality life of fishermen/ women in the state. TSFCOF has been registered on 25-02-2015, after bifurcation of AP and Telangana.
Three levels of fishermen cooperatives societies are functioning in the state. The primary fishermen cooperatives at the village level, the district fishermen cooperative societies at district level in which the primary fishermen cooperative societies have to enroll their membership and the Federation is at state level in which the district fishermen cooperatives societies are affiliated as member societies.
NCDC has sanctioned Rs.800.00 crore (comprising of Rs.600.00 crore as Loan & Rs.200.00 crore as Subsidy) to TSCOF under Direct Funding for the benefit of fishermen in all the District of Telangana. Out of which the Federation has availed Rs.657.023055 crore (comprising of Rs.600 crore as Loan; Rs.44.33818 crore as interest bearing loan from subsidy portion & Rs.12.684875 crore as Subsidy) as of now. TSFCOF is carrying out various activities for promoting, procurement, processing and marketing of fish and fishery products for the total development of fishermen community in the state.
Integrated Fisheries Development Scheme (IFDS) – Objectives:
- Year round fishing activity & supply of local fish in Telangana.
- Saturation approach in fish rearing in water bodies.
- Diversification of fish rearing activities.
- Improved livelihood & enhanced incomes.
- Increasing production and productivity by providing backward and forward linkages.
- Achieving self-sufficiency in production of fish seed.
- Fish to consumers at an affordable price and in hygienic condition.
Activities carried out by TSFCOF
Telangana Stree Nidhi Credit Cooperative Federation Limited, Hyderabad
The SHGs in Telangana, in rural area are federated into Village Organisations (VOs) at village level and Mandal Samakhyas (MSs) at Mandal level. Likewise, SHGs in urban area are federated into Slum Level Federations (SLFs) at slum level and Town Level Federations (TLFs) at Town level. The membership of Mandal Samakhyas and Town Level Federations (TLFs) stands at 613 in TS StreeNidhi.
The Telangana State Stree Nidhi Credit Cooperative Federation Ltd., Hyderabad, is aimed at providing timely, adequate and low cost credit – adhering to basic tenets of credit delivery system, focussing on livelihood financing and credit plus services for impact creation, providing saving avenues to the poor& providing financial services at village/slum level.
It covers all the 32 districts of Telangana State. The Managing Committee of Stree Nidhi consists of 12 Directors elected by representatives of Mandal Samakhyas and Town Level Federations, three members nominated by State Govt., three special invitees and Managing Directors as ex-officio member.
Audit Classification for last 5 years – “A”
NCDC Assistance
TS Stree Nidhi has availed NCDC assistance as per the following details:
| Year | Financial Assistance by NCDC | Purpose of Loan |
|---|---|---|
| 2016-17 | Rs.100.00 crore | Short Term Working Capital Assistance |
| 2017-18 | Rs.200.00 crore | |
| 2019-20 | Rs.200.00 crore | |
| 2020-21 | Rs.200.00 crore |
