INDIA MAKING CO-OPERATIVE EXPERIMENTS

Shannon News, 20 November 1928, Page 1

INDIA MAKING CO-OPERA-TIVE EXPERIMENTS

BOMBAY,

For the village; reconstruction in Sind and Gujrat after the great floods, die Government,of Bombay have sanctioned a sum of 1,000,C00 rupees. The amount sanctioned accords very closely uith the estimate that had been made by the touring officers in Sind -and Gujrat, which really means that the Government have accepted the responsibility in full for ajl the reconstruction to be carried out under the scheme framed by the Co-operative .Department. The co-operative officers at head quarters in Bombay have been preparing the, details for the scheme for many weeks awaiting the sanction of the necessary moimy, and now that the funds have, been marie available everything is ready for what promises to be one of the most novel and interesting experiments in co-operative housing in villages that has ever been tried. There have already been a number of applications from villages in Gujrat to be registered under this scheme, which provides for substantial loans on the security of the whole viliege for rehousing and reconstruction purposes. It is expected that at least 100 villages in Gujrat will eoine under this novel experiment. As for Sind, although there have been no definite applications as yet, the tour made in the affected flood areas by the officials concerned has demonstrated that the Co-operative Department in Sind will be able to carry out a great scheme with the money placed at its disposal. Under the able guidance of Aziz Khan during the past six years the co-operative movement has performed, it is reported, miracles of prosperity and progress through Sind, and has admirably demonstrated its capacity to cope with such a scheme as the one about to bo instituted to reconstruct the destroyed villages.