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Government of Bengal Annual Report on the Working of Co-operative Societies in the Presidency of Bengal for the year ending 30th June 1939

1940

The natural calamity in severe form during the year together with other circumstances already existing such as the operation of the Debt Settlment Boards and the prospect of the Moneylenders' Act to be passed seriouly affected the position of rural credit and hampered the progress of the rehabilitation programme of the deparment which involved larger collection of overdue loans scalin [...] Although the main scheme of rehabilitation of the agricultural credit movement submitted by the department during the year was still under the consideration of Goverment the department was taking steps more or less on the lines of the scheme to arrest further deterioration of the societies. [...] The operation of the Debt Settlement Boards in the Province has interfered with the expansion of busness of the land mortgage banks in that while an award made by a Debt Settlment Board carries no interest and is repayable from the surplus income of the debtor by instalments in the case of land mortgage banks the debtor has to borrow the whole of the awarded or adjusted amount from the soci [...] Before the close of the year the training of the VII batch of the under-training officers consistino. [...] In the district of Birbhum the total number of societies at the close of the year was 496 as against 492 of the previous year.
government politics public policy
Pages
107
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.140468
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
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I.—Administration
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II.—Summary of General Progress
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III.—Classification of Returns
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IV.—Operation of Agricultural Societies
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V.—Operation of Non-agricultural Societies
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VI.—Cattle Insurance Societies
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VII.—Higher Co-operative Organisation
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VIII.—Reserve and other Funds
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IX.—Disputes and Litigation
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X.—Liquidation
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XI.—Co-operation with the Agriculture Industries and other Departments of Government
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XII.—Attitude of the Public
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XIII.—Official and Non-official Assistance
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Appendix
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