Overview

The said law of 1904 provided only the registration of the money lending societies. No provision was therein regarding any other co-operative activities then the said act was amended in 1912. As a result of Montfords revision in 1919 the co-operative activities became a subject of the provincial governments. The Mumbai Government, taking initiatives passed the Mumbai Co-operative Societies Act in 1925. on bifurcation of the Mumbai state in 1960, Gujarat became a separate state. After the constitution of the Gujarat state since 1/5/60. The Gujarat Co-operative Societies Act 1961 has come into force. The implementation of the act is made by the Co-operation Department of the state.

The main function of the cooperation Department is as under :-

	Development of and regulation over the co-operative societies in the state as well as implementation of the Guajarat Co-operative Societies Act 1961
	Development of and regulation over the Agricultural produce market committees of the state and for that purpose, functions of implementation of the Gujarat Agricultural produce market Committees Act, 1963.
	Preventing exploitation of the borrowers by the private money lenders under the Bombay money lender Act 1946 and in this way, regulation over the money lending.
	Implementation of the Gujarat Ownership flat Act 1973.

The office of the registrar, Co-operative societies, the Gujarat state, Gandhinagar is the head office for the purpose of implementation of the functions under the co-operation Department. The additional registrar, joint registrar, deputy registrar and the Assistant registrar performs various functions in the head office his control. While at the district level, The District registrar, of the district concerned perform the functions in this regards.

There are aggregate 25 district head in the state and every district head quarter has office of the district registrar of co-operative societies. For the purpose of implementation of money lending Act , the office of assistance district registrar, money lending is at the district of Vadodara, rajkot and Godhara. For the purpose of auditing of all the co-operative societies in the state the office of joint registrar, Co-operative societies, audit (divisional) are at the Divisional level Ahmedabad, Vadodara and rajkot. While the Audit structure at the district level is at the disposal of the district registrar , co-operative societies which performs the functions of auditing accounts of the co-operative societies of various nature in the state.

For the purpose of the auditing the accounts of the milk producers co-operative societies and milk producers Co-operative federations, the co-operation Department has constituted a separate Inspection and Audit committee and chief executive officer of these committee separately perform the function of auditing the account of milk producers and milk producers co-operative federations in the state.


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