Ahmedabad, May 18 -- Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah on Sunday addressed the Maha Sammelan on the 'Role of Cooperatives in Building a Viksit Bharat' organised by Gujarat State Cooperative Federation in Ahmedabad here

Many dignitaries, including Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel, were present on the occasion.

In his address, Shah said that the United Nations has decided to celebrate 2025 as the International Year of Cooperatives. He said that the word cooperative is as relevant today for the whole world as it was in the year 1900, according to an official release from the Ministry of Cooperation.

Shah said that under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi, a major effort to revive the cooperative movement in I...