Bhopal, April 13 -- Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday said Prime Minister Narendra Modi has brought significant changes to the cooperative movement in just a span of three and a half years.

Addressing the State Level Cooperative Conference in Bhopal, Shah said, "After 75 years of independence, PM Modi established the cooperation ministry and made me the first minister. In just three-and-a-half years, PM Modi has brought significant changes to the cooperative movement."

Shah who is also the Union Minister of Cooperation said that the cooperative movement in India had become uneven, speeding up in some states and dying in others where efforts were not made to make the required laws.

"If we look at the cooperative movement in India ...