STATE TIMES NEWS
LEH: Minister for Ladakh Affairs and Cooperatives Chering Dorjey on Wednesday inaugurated Leh’s first Cooperative Super Bazaar ‘Bami Duniya Consumer Cooperative Store’ and ‘Cooperative Chemist Shop’.
CEC LAHDC Leh Dr Sonam Dawa, MLA Leh Nawang Rigzin Jora, EC Works Dorjey Mutup, EC Sheep and Animal Husbandry Mumtaz Hussain, Councilors, DC Leh Prasanna Ramaswamy G, former Union Minister P Namgial, district officers, religious and social heads and members of various cooperative societies from different villages were also present on the occasion.
Addressing the gathering, the minister said the vision behind having this cooperative super market is to develop and promote peasant market for farmers of the district.
While talking about the challenges in getting this super bazaar started, the minister said the present 23 Kanal land transferred to Cooperative Department, Leh is intended to be used for selling and buying products like agriculture produce, tools, seeds etc. He stressed upon the Cooperative Marketing Society to take responsibility of owning and managing the land to ensure maximum direct benefit to farmers.
Dorjey said the government is working to revive and improve cooperative movement, for which, elections are being held in the state. Elections have already been held in Jammu while the elections for Kashmir will be held soon, he added.
CEC LAHDC Dr Sonam Dawa expressed gratitude to the Minister on behalf of people of Leh district for the super market, and the cold storage, work for which is under progress.
MLA Leh Jora also congratulated the Minister, DRC and all cooperative societies of the district for this new super market. A traditional cultural program was also presented on the occasion.
