Eligible cooperative societies must be registered: Swapan

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BSS, Dhaka :
State Minister for Local Government, Rural Development and Cooperatives (LGRD) Swapan Bhattacharjee said that eligible cooperative societies must be registered after audit.
He stated this at a meeting held on Sunday at the conference room of the Rural Development and Cooperatives Department here through an online platform to finalize the Cooperative Societies Rules, 2004, said a press release.
Swapan Bhattacharjee said Bangabandhu had a plan to uplift the socio-economic condition of the rural people and he took various cooperative-based programs to this end.
There is ample scope to run cooperative society in agricultural sector and initiatives have been taken to update the Cooperative Societies Rules, 2004 to bring transparency, accountability and dynamism in the activities of the co-operative societies, he added. Among others, Secretary of Rural Development and Cooperatives Department Md. Rezaul Ahsan, Registrar and Director General of Cooperatives Department Md. Aminul Islam, Director General of Bangladesh Rural Development Board (BRDB) Supriya Kumar Kundu and heads of various departments and agencies and senior officials of the ministry were present on the occasion.
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