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Cooperative
Management Aspect in South Asia
Khilendra
Basnyat
In most south
Asian Countries, the strive for rural development has now become a history of
many years. In these countries, political leaders coming from the rural elite
advocated rural development in their respective countries. Successive national
plans funneled money, time and energy in rural areas through different
governmental agencies. Despite these efforts, many rural people are still
uneducated in these countries. Of them, many seek their livelihood in absolute
poverty.
When a person observes the
development efforts made in his/her country in the past, She/he can get a
scenario that may offer him a short-lived satisfaction. But when one looks for
a successful model for replication elsewhere in these countries, he/she finds
himself/herself strayed in the ever shifting ideas that are developed and tried
by many actors of rural development.
Cooperative,
among many other concepts of rural development, has been adopted for many years
in south Asian countries. The concerned departments of these countries
channeled the funds needed for cooperatives and decided the number of new cooperatives
to be registered and their by-laws. Obviously, in most of these countries, the
government hired managers conducted their businesses, and the fixed assets were
created through government grants and soft loans. Despite this, most members of
cooperatives had no realization of their needs and aspirations. They were not
aware of their membership and had no ambition of being associated with the
cooperatives. Consequently, there was no goal to achieve through joint efforts.
Nor do they have any need spelled out of their hard pressed realities of life.