Social media flooded with B’day wishes for Sanghani
The ace co-operator from Gujarat and NCUI President Dileepbhai Sanghani was greeted by one and all on the occasion of his birth day which fell on Wednesday.
The recent rise in his persona when he became the president of the apex body NCUI, is cited as the reason behind such a flood of birthday wishes for him.
IFFCO MD Dr U S Awasthi, who was one of the first to greet him wrote “Heartiest Birthday Greetings & wishes to Sh. Dileep Sanghani Ji, Vice Chairman IFFCO & President of NCUI. God bless you with success, ecstasy & good health. Your work for growth of farmers & cooperatives is commendable.
Tomar, Sanghani, Awasthi and others greet women achievers
Many take to social media to greet women achievers
Cooperatives are generally known as a male bastion in India but they looked just the opposite on March 8. Cooperative leaders from Union Ministers to NCUI President to IFFCO MD and others all of them have greeted women cooperators on the occasion of International Women’s Day reiterating their commitment to help them have pride of place in the cooperative world.
Narendra Singh Tomar, Union Agriculture Minister on the occasion of International Women Day has inaugurated the regional Agricultural Fair organized by the Central Agricultural University, Imphal.
It is time to appreciate and buck up women co-operators who have made the country proud by empowering and making poor women self-reliant. Several such women leaders are doing praiseworthy work in not only help fighting the domestic violence but also making helpless women stand on their feet economically.
There are several cooperatives in the country including Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), Working Women Forum (WWF-ICNF) and others who are wholly working for the upliftment of women.
Indian Cooperative movement indeed has several women who are spearheading the movement in their own way. A few names such as SEWA’s Ela Bhatt, WWF’s Nandini Azad, Surekha Khot, Asha Snegar, Sadhana Jadhav, Arti Bisaria, SEWA’s Mirai Chatterjee, Alka Srivastava, Bhavana Gondaliya etc immediately come to mind.
The absence of Nandini Azad’s name from the list of the members of the reconstituted women committee of NCUI has become an issue which is being discussed not only in the cooperative but also in the political circles. Ms Azad is the Chairperson of the women committee of international co-op body ICA Asia-Pacific and omission of her name means India loses a prized position on the international forum.
It bears recall that recently elected President of NCUI Dileep Sanghani reconstituted several committees including Women Committee, in which Nandini Azad was not re-nominated. The issue gained prominence since Azad still has about two years of her tenure left as the Chair of the ICA AP. She was elected in December 2018 for a tenure of 4 years.
The absence of Nandini Azad’s name from the list of the members of the reconstituted women committee of NCUI has become an issue which is being discussed not only in the cooperative but also in the political circles. Ms Azad is the Chairperson of the women committee of international co-op body ICA Asia-Pacific and omission of her name means India loses a prized position on the international forum.
It bears recall that recently elected President of NCUI Dileep Sanghani reconstituted several committees including Women Committee, in which Nandini Azad was not re-nominated. The issue gained prominence since Azad still has about two years of her tenure left as the Chair of the ICA AP. She was elected in December 2018 for a tenure of 4 years.