Overview

• The festival was launched under the UN’s International Year of Cooperatives framework, through which the central government assigned 54 cooperative-related tasks to states
• Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah handed out over 8,000 appointment letters to youth as part of the Rozgar Utsav rural employment drive
• Shah virtually inaugurated 24 modern food grain warehouses and 64 millet outlets to bolster storage capacity and nutritional outreach
• Loans totaling Rs 12 crore under the Gopal Credit Card Scheme were disbursed to 1,400 beneficiaries and 2,346 micro ATMs were distributed to dairy cooperative societies
• Heavy rain grounded Shah’s helicopter at Jaipur Airport, prompting him to travel by road to Dadiya after police security teams completed route verifications