No chosen body or advisory council in Ponlait for more than a years

Agents of Ponlait holding a presentation inside a sub-office of the society to highlight milk scarcity in Puducherry on Thursday.|Picture Credit: S.S.KUMAR Members connected to the main milk societies grumble that they are rejected any function in the performance of Co-operative Milk Producers Union, commonly called Ponlait, as elections are not carried out to make up a basic body. They associate today predicament of the society to the lack of a democratically chosen basic body and an Advisory Council. Based on area 31 of the Puducherry Co-operative Societies Act, 1972, the supreme authority of an authorized society need to vest with the basic body comprising its members. “Involvement of stakeholders is among the essential elements of the effective performance of societies. For more than a years now, the federal government has actually not performed election to make up the basic body. The mismanagement of the society began after federal government began keeping away the stakeholders in the daily performance of Ponlait,” stated a dairy farmer. The guidelines recommend assembling basic conference of the chosen body when in a year to authorize the budget plan, for factor to consider of the audit and yearly reports, disposal of net revenues, evaluating the loans provided to the members of the committee and their family members. The basic body was likewise empowered to act on healing of loans, he stated. According to a retired personnel of Registrar of Cooperative Societies, the mismanagement of the society was likewise the outcome of lack of an advisory council, which has powers to manage t
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