Mumbai, June 20 -- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah on Friday attended the National Seminar organised by NAFED (National Agricultural Cooperative Marketing Federation of India) on the occasion of International Year of Cooperatives 2025.

Speaking at the event, Union Minister Shah stated that cooperatives are a "philosophy" of traditional Indian living and have been supporting the underprivileged and women in society for over a century.

"Cooperatives may be an economic system for the whole world, but for India, cooperatives are a philosophy of our traditional life. Coming together, thinking together, working together, going together for a single goal and dealing with happiness and sorrow together, this is the soul...