National Cooperative Conference

Current Context: The Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah addressed the first-ever National Cooperative Conference (Sehkarita Sammelan).

• The event was held at Indira Gandhi Indoor Stadium in New Delhi.
• It was the country’s first such cooperative conference and was held with an aim to strengthen the Indian Cooperatives.
• It was organised by IFFCO, National Cooperative Federation of India, Amul, Sahakar Bharti, NAFED, KRIBHCO, and all cooperatives together.
• While addressing the event, he mentioned that GOI has set the goal to develop the Cooperative sector of the country and the roadmap for the same is framed.
• He also mentioned the importance of cooperatives for the country as it can be led to a lot of development for the country at national as well as at the international level.
• It will be the major entity contributing to make India a $5 trillion economy.
• He assured that the current problems which are being faced by cooperatives like the taxation front will soon be resolved.
• He highlighted that number of primary agriculture cooperatives (PACs) will be increased to three lakh in the next five years.

Question: 

Q.1 Who among the following addressed the first-ever National Cooperative Conference (Sehkarita Sammelan)?
a. PM Narendra Modi
b. Amit Shah
c. M. Venkaiah Naidu
d. Nitin Gadkari