A cooperative society is a business organization formed by a
group of individuals who voluntarily unite to achieve common economic, social,
or cultural goals. Unlike traditional enterprises that prioritize profit for
shareholders, a cooperative society is designed to benefit its members through
collective action, democratic management, and shared resources. Members
contribute capital, skills, or labor and jointly participate in
decision-making, generally following the principle of “one person, one vote,”
regardless of the capital contributed.
The core idea behind a cooperative is mutual assistance.
Members pool their resources to procure goods or services, access affordable
credit, or market their products collectively. For example, a group of farmers
may form a cooperative to buy seeds and fertilizers in bulk at reduced rates,
while a consumer cooperative can arrange for essential goods to be sold to its
members at cost prices by removing middlemen.
Features of cooperative societies include voluntary and open
membership, democratic control, emphasis on service rather than profit, limited
return on capital, and collective decision-making mechanisms. Membership is
open to all individuals sharing a common interest, and entry or exit is
entirely voluntary. This structure fosters transparency, inclusiveness, and
accountability.
The working of a cooperative society is based on certain key
characteristics:
**Equality among
members in terms of voting rights, regardless of their monetary contribution.
** Profits
distributed based on participation or reinvested for the collective good.
** Limited return on
capital to discourage capitalistic exploitation.
Focus on economic and social upliftment rather than personal profit.
WHY CHOOSE US?
*To create awareness on the necessity of thrift and savings;
Help to organize new Co-operative Credit Unions especially
with the participation of low earning group of people to accumulate savings in
order to create capital to be lent to its members and develop socio-economic
condition of people on `Self-help’ basis
** To organize various types of educational training,
workshop, seminar and forum to educate the leaders, members and professionals
of co-operative credit unions;
** To collect advance technologies and publish different
educational booklets, bulletin, co-operative finance and governance newsletter
and many other necessary forms to be used in the management and accounts of the
co-operative credit union
** To develop skill and performance of Credit Union staff
members as well as CCULB staff too
**To monitor and evaluate the member JSJS;
** To implement statutory as well as internal audit to its
members co-operative credit unions
** Improve and standardize JSJS Team.
** To provide Mutual Aid Services to its members.
Equality among members in terms of voting rights, regardless of their monetary contribution.
To implement statutory as well as internal audit to its members co-operative credit unions
Profits distributed based on participation or reinvested for the collective good
Profits distributed based on participation or reinvested for the collective good
Limited return on capital to discourage capitalistic exploitation
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