To enlighten the issues, we had conducted the following Seminars, Symposiums, Workshops and Round Table Meets;

 

1.              "Dist. Coop. Central Banks in the changing environment" on 19-11-1996. 

a.           Participants : Sri T.D. Janardhan Rao, President A.P. State Coop. Bank, is the Chief Guest. Sri K. Rudra Reddy, President, Hyd. DCCB, is Guest of Honour.  Speakers are Sri............. President, All DCCBs of A.P.Employees Assn., Sri B.V. Raghavaiah Gen. Secretary, APCOB Staff Union, Sri C. NarasimhaReddy, Principal Coop. Training Centre Hyd.  Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah, Convinor, Sahakara Samrakshana Samithi a FORUM, and the  number of Presidents /Secretaries of PACS expressed their opinions.

b.          Outcome /Resolutions; Main resolution was requesting the RBI to give relaxations and post pone the implementation of the Prudential Norms to the Cooperative Banks, to enable the Coop. Banks to educate its members, who are owners about the NPA concept.

 

2.              "Cooperative Sector is the Protector in the Globalized Indian Economy".

a.        Conducted on 4-9-1997.  Participants are Sri. B.S.Viswanathan, President; National Coop. Union of India, NCUI New Delhi, is the Chief Guest.  Sri T.D. Janardhan Rao, President; AP. State Coop. Bank APCOB is Guest of honour, Sri K. Rudra Reddy, President Hyd. DCCB is also Guest of honour, Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah , Director; Sahakara Samkshema Samithi, NGO, Submitted the Back Ground Paper for the Seminar. PACS Presidents and Secretaries also spoke.

b.        Outcome/Resolutions; (a) Cooperative sector must be recognized as an Economic system on par with the Capitalistic system.  It should  be  included in Five Year Plan Document. (b) National Cooperative Policy must be formulated. (c) Financial assistance must be provided to Cooperative Banks to set aside the effects of Prudential Norms, as was done to the Commercial Banks.

 

3.             "Effects of Narasimham Committee Recommendations on Indian Rural Economy and strengthening of Cooperative System" on 23-6-1998. 

a.     This Seminar is conducted with the Economists, Bankers, the Cooperators, Sociologists and the Senior Journalists.  Participants; Dr. K. Chakradhar Rao, Head of Economic Dept. of Osmania University,  Prof. G. Nanchariah. Dept. of Economic , Hyderabad Central University, Sri. A. Anantha Krishna Rao, Director,SBH, Sri B. Hanumantha Rao, Senior Journalist and Head of Data News Features, Sri T.D.Janardhana Rao, President, AP State Coop. Bank, Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah, Director, Sahakara Samkshema Samithi, NGO. and the Presidents and Secretaries of PACS also participated.  Representatives from NABARD, CC&RCS Govt of AP. 

 

b.    Out Come/Resolutions; The main resolution was that Indian Economy may be viewed as (1) Rural Economy and (2) Industry & Trade Economy.  The strengthening of the rural economy through the Cooperative sector is a must.  This leads to increase the "Purchasing Power" of the small &marginal farmers and the rural artisans, in turn increases the '"Demand" for the Industry and Trade Sector.  It leads to a sustainable economic development of the Indian economy.  Negligence of rural economy leads to social tension among the rural people. 

 

4.          "Work Shop on strengthening & Vigilance in Cooperatives", on 4-11-2000. 

a.        Participants ;  Sri Chikkala Ramachandra Rao, Cooperative Minister,Govt. of                 A.P.  is Chief Guest, Guest of  Honours are Sri T.D. Janardhan Rao, President, A.P. State Coop. Bank, Sri S. Bhale Rao, I.A.S., Principle secretary,  Sri D. Srinivasulu I.A.S., Registrar of Coop. Societies , Govt. A.P. and Presidents & Secretaries of PACS and Sri...State Chief Marketing Officer, KRIBHCO and Sri Sambarapu Bhoomaiah, Director, Sahakara Samkshema Samithi.  The Participants were divided into five Groups and the Groups discussed the problems, the issues facing AP state PACS, at end the Groups submitted their opinions and resolved unanimously.  

 Out Come/ Resolutions;

Mainly the resolutions were dealt with  in  strengthening of  PACS  and the amendments to bring in the AP State Coop. Act. 1964.

 

5.              "Round Table Meet on 'The Companies(second amendment) Bill-2001" 

a.        Conducted on 4-2-2001.  Participants; The Presidents and Gen. Secretaries of all  Farmers Association affiliated to the Political Parties in A.P.,

b.      Out Come/ Resolutions; The Round Table Meet unanimously resolved to appeal the "Hon'ble Parliament to refer the ' 'The Companies(second amendment) Bill-2001 ' to the Parliant Standing Committee for wider discussions with the experts.

 

6.             Under took a case Study on " Cooperative Credit  in Mahaboobnagar District" to assist the State Govt. of A.P. in restructuring the PACS  in  2002.

 

a.      The Study Team consist of Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah, Director, Sahakara Samkshema Samithi, NGO. and guided by Prof. K. Purushotham,. Assisted & Cooperated by G.M. and President of DCCB, DCO, and DLCOs of Mahaboobnagar District.

b.      Out Come;  The Study team advised to reconstruct the PACS consist of maximum 7-8 villages, having 2000 eligible members in  each PACS.

7.             "Round Table Meet on Vaidyanathan Committee Report" ; on  24-3-2005

a.      Participants are;Representatives from Political Parties, Farmers Associations, the Cooperators and Socialogists. Sri Smt. P. Suharlatha, Congress, Sri T.D. Janardhan Rao, TDP., Sri K. Yadagiri Reddy, MLA, TRS., Sri B.L. Sathis MahajanTRS. Sri K. Ramakrishna Ex-MLA.CPI,  Sri G. Ramamurthy, Chairman AP Urban Coop. Banks Fedn. Sri T.V. Choudary AP Rythu Sangam, Gen. secretary, Sri P. Ramakrishna Reddy, Vice-Principal , Lecturers Sri V. Venkat Reddy, Sri K. Dasaratham,, Sri K. Sudhakar Reddy, Editorial Board Member; Sahakara Samacharam, Sri P. Ramanjaneya Reddy, President AP SCUnion, Sri B.V. Raghavaiah, Gen. secretary APCOB Staff Union , Sri B. Parameswar Advocate, Prof. K. Purushotham, Director;MRDF,an NGO. Round Table Meet Coordinator is Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah.

b.      The Out Come/Resolutions; The main resolutions are,

(a)    Revival Package should be applicable to all Cooperatives, not be     optional, with out conditions.

(b)    Govt. of India that with out procrastinating further, release the financial package to all the Cooperative Institutions without looking for the share of the State Govts. The Govt. of India should release both the shares of Centre and the State. State Govt. share may be treated as a soft loan.

 

(c)    All PACS, DCCBs and SCBs should be taken up for revitalization and provide financial support for recapitalization, as their impairments was largely on account of external factors.

8.         “Report on Role of Rural Cooperative Credit Institutions for  Development of  Scheduled Tribe Members in Tribal Areas”-2019

The research  study entrust to us, the 'Sahakara Samkshema Samithi" by the National Federation of State Cooperative Banks (NAFSCOB), Navi Mumbai. to study the Role of Rural Cooperative Credit Institutions for the Development of Scheduled Tribe Members in Tribal areas.  The study area comprised of Tribal Areas of Rayagada and Gajapati districts of Odisha State, Visakhapatnam district of  Andhra Pradesh State and erstwhile Adilabad distric of Telangana State. the study was conducted as per the Terms of Reference of the NAFSCOB order. This study is fully Funded and Supported by the NAFSCOB. The study team consist of Sri. Sambharapu Bhoomaiah, Director, Sri. K. Dasaratham, Lecturer(Retired) Kakatiya Coop. Training Center, Hanmakonda of TS Coop. Union, and  Sri. M. Venu, Sahakara Darma Pracharak of Sahakara Samkshema Samithi.

Outcome; The LAMPS/PACS are not accessible to the members to actively participate in the affairs of the Society.  They need to be restructured in the Scheduled Tribe notified Areas. The PACS functioning in the Scheduled Tribe notified Areas may also be restructured and named as LAMPS.  They should  also adopt the LAMPS By-laws. The LAMPS are to be brought under the purview of the Special Central Assistance to Tribal Sub-Schemes (SCA toTSS) grants, along with administrative Mechanism.  An ICDP model programme for motivation and as facilitator for implementing the objectives of the LAMPS.

 

9.      "Cooperative Economic System in Rural India - A Perspective" on 3-10-2019.

 One day Symposium is organised  in collaboration with Dept. of Economic,  Osmania University.  The participants are the Economists, The Cooperators, The  Political Parties,  The Farmers Associations and Student Scholars in Economic     and Sociology.  The Symposium is presided by Prof. D. Ravinder, Principal; University College of Arts & Social Sciences, Osmania University.  Chief Guest and Inaugurated by Sri Konduru Ravinder Rao, President, Telangana State Coop. Apex Bank Ltd. Guest of Honour  is Sri T. Rajeswar Rao, Chairman, Telangana State Coop. Union. Back ground of Paper is submitted by Sri Sambharapu Bhoomaiah, Director, Sahakara Samkshema Samithi,  Theme Papers are submitted by  Dr. K. Chakradhar Rao, (Retd.) Head of Economic Dept. of Osmania University  and Prof. G. Laxmaiah  (Retd.) Chairman, Board of Studies, O.U., Prof. J. Narasimha Rao, Head of Economics Dept., Dr. M. Ramulu, Asst. Professor, Dept of Economic, Prof. A. Nakula Reddy, Professor, Economics,  O.U.,  Prof. Tadka  Yadagiri,  Lecturer, Nizam College,  Sri Kodand Reddy, Ex-MLA, Congress Party, Sri Botla Parameswar, Advocate, ZPTC Member, Sri Sarampalli Malla Reddy, President Rythusangam, CPIM.

 Outcome; 

The Symposium reaffirmed that the Cooperative system is an Economic system. It believes in ethical values, behaves with social responsibility and protects its members from the exploitative nature of the Private sector. The same regulations can‘t be applied to Private sector and Cooperative sector.  A separate regulation had to be framed for the Cooperative Sector with the adherence to its’ Principles and ethical values. Cooperative Subject must be introduced as a syllabus from University level to Primary level.