The Indian Co-operative Movement is more than 100 years old and also it is the largest one in the World There are about 5.5 lakh different forms of co operatives working in almost all sectors of the Economy Since independence they have been playing a very significant role in promoting Agricultural and Rural development and Employment generation In this process the co operatives facilitated the emergence of Green Revolution. White Revolution and Sugar Revolution Recently the Government has agreed to provide Rs 15000 crore for strengthening the co operative Banking system arid further for safeguarding co-operative autonomy it introduced in Parliament the 106th Constitutional Amendment Bill.

This Book brings together articles/ Research papers contributed by scholars who belong to different universities, colleges, Institutions and professionals working in various co-operatives The contributors have presented their best Analytic rigour for issues connected with different aspects of the co operative sector The papers in this volume have been grouped in different sections Section I : Globalisation and Co-operatives; Section II : Co-operative Banking; Section III : Co operative Marketing; Section IV : Hrm in Co-operatives; Section V : Dairy Co operatives; Section VI : Agro Processing Co-operatives; Section VII : Consumer Co-operatives and others; Section VIII : Management Cases on Cooperatives Surely this book will be quite useful for Policy makers, researchers academicians and Co-operative Managers and trainers in co-operatives.

Rais Ahmad (b. 1958), M Com., Ph.D. and FDPM (IIM-Ahmedabad), Chairman, Department of Agricultural Economics and Business Management, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, worked as Professor in Management Studies for one year during 2005-2006 at Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi as and as Visiting Professor in Mba (Executive Programme), Faculty of Engineering and Technology, during the same period. He has guided and continues to guide PG Research Projects and researchers working for doctoral theses He is a keen researcher and has published a good number of research papers/articles in Professional journals of repute and also published eight books. Presently he is engaged in doing a UGC major research project on Micro-finance.