Amit Shah Lays Foundation for ₹500 Cr Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Gujarat.

Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah today laid the foundation stone for the ₹500 crore Tribhuvan Sahkari University in Anand, Gujarat, a project he believes will usher in a new era of transparency and meritocracy within India's cooperative sector.

During the ceremony, Shah emphasized that the university will "help eliminate allegations of 'nepotism and increase transparency'" in human resource recruitment for cooperatives. "Earlier, we used to first hire people for the cooperative sector, and then train them," Shah stated. "Now, after this university is built, provisions will be made to ensure that only those who have passed out from this university will get jobs. Due to this university, the allegations of nepotism in the cooperative sector will end. This will also bring in transparency."

Shah further highlighted that graduates from Tribhuvan Sahkari University will not only gain essential knowledge in technology, accounting, scientific approaches, and marketing, but will also be instilled with the core values of the cooperative movement, which aims to uplift the poor, women, tribals, and Dalits across the country.

In a forward-looking suggestion, the Union Minister also urged the Gujarat government to consider integrating "cooperatives" as a subject into the state's school curriculum, underlining the importance of the movement from an early age.