Government of Bengal Annual Report on the Working of Co-operative Societies in the Presidency of Bengal for the year 1927-28

3. The rapid growth in the number of co-operative societies primary as well as central the expansion of the activities of the department in new spheres notably in the marketing of agricultural produce an account of which will be given in the body of this report and the arrangements for traiing the Departmental as well as the Societies' staffs have all contributed to the difficulties experie [...] The long deferred question of the pay and prospects of the audit staff wasll decided by the recent orders of the Goernment placing the auditors on a permanent footing in the grade of Rs. [...] The success of the scheme however depends on the ability of the supervisors to understand the principles involved in this differentiation and to apply them to the case of individual members of the village societies. [...] In paragraph 4 of their resoltion on the last annual report of this department the Government recomended the pursuance of a cautious policy in respect of the expansion of the movement in the sphere of marketing of agricultural produce. [...] The publication of the report of the Royal Commission has once again emphasized the need for the co-ordination of the activties of the Departments of Agriculture and Co-operation.