National Council for Cooperative Training (NCCT), an autonomous society under the Ministry of Cooperation, has been mandated, inter-alia, to formulate overall policies and plans relating to training, assess the needs of training for personnel, design andorganize training programs, establish and manage training institutes and also conduct research studies in the cooperative sector.

   NCCT also conducts collaborative programs with the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development, Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority, Securities and Exchange Board of India, Directorate General Resettlement, etc. in the cooperative sector.

Since its inception in 1974, NCCT has conducted a total of 52,423 training and member education programs and trained about 14.9 lakh personnel till 2021-22.

The number of programs conducted and the number of participants trained by NCCT in the last three years and the current year are as under

Year	Achievement
	No. of Programs	No. of Participants
2019-2020	1,783	60,881
2020-2021	1,100	40,288
2021-2022	1,598	62,774
2022-2023 (up to Feb. 2023)	2,624	1,44,879

 

The numbers during 2020-21 and 2021-22 were affected due to the then prevailing Covid-19 pandemic

This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha.

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