Amit Shah addresses International Year of Cooperatives seminar and opens MACCIA headquarters in Mumbai
On 20 June 2025 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed a national seminar on the International Year of Cooperatives 2025 and inaugurated the new headquarters of MACCIA.
Summary
Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah addressed a national seminar in Mumbai on 20 June 2025 marking the International Year of Cooperatives 2025. Amit Shah said the nearly 125-year-old cooperative movement has supported the country's poor, farmers, rural citizens and women, and cited Amul, IFFCO, KRIBHCO and NAFED as examples. The same day, Amit Shah inaugurated the newly built headquarters of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MACCIA) in Mumbai and joined a state-level cooperative industrial conference. Maharashtra Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis and Union Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol attended.
Key facts
- Seminar
- National seminar on International Year of Cooperatives 2025, Mumbai
- Cooperative movement
- Nearly 125 years old (Amit Shah)
- Examples cited
- Amul, IFFCO, KRIBHCO, NAFED
- MACCIA
- New headquarters inaugurated in Mumbai
Practice MCQs 2 questions
The national seminar addressed by Amit Shah in Mumbai on 20 June 2025 was organised on the occasion of what?
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Correct answer: C — International Year of Cooperatives 2025
PIB (Cooperation): Amit Shah addressed a national seminar organised in Mumbai on the occasion of the International Year of Cooperatives 2025.
Whose newly constructed headquarters did Amit Shah inaugurate in Mumbai on 20 June 2025?
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Correct answer: A — Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MACCIA)
PIB (MHA): Amit Shah inaugurated the newly constructed headquarters of the Maharashtra Chamber of Commerce, Industry and Agriculture (MACCIA) in Mumbai.