India, May 18 -- The Government of India issued the following news release:

Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah today addressed the Maha Sammelan on the "Role of Cooperatives in Building a Viksit Bharatorganized by Gujarat State Cooperative Federation" in Ahmedabad, Gujarat. Many dignitaries including Gujarat Chief Minister Shri Bhupendra Patel were present on the occasion.

In his address to the Maha Sammelan, Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation Shri Amit 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 year1900. Shri Shah said that under the leadershi...