Q.Explain the role of VAMNICOM, Pune in co-operative training.

VAMNICOM is the country's premier national institute for co-operative management, sitting at the apex of the national training network.

The Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Co-operative Management (VAMNICOM), Pune is the premier national institute for co-operative management education and training in India. It functions under the National Council for Co-operative Training (NCCT) (which itself is under the NCUI), was established in 1967, and is named after the co-operative pioneer Shri Vaikunth Mehta.

Its role and functions in co-operative training:

• Higher management training — it provides advanced, professional-level training in co-operative management to senior personnel of co-operative institutions, officers of the co-operative departments, and executives of co-operative banks and federations.
• Management education — it conducts long-term post-graduate management programmes oriented towards co-operative and rural management, producing professionally qualified managers for the sector.
• Research and consultancy — it carries out research on co-operative and rural-development problems and offers consultancy to co-operative organisations.
• Training the trainers — it helps develop the faculty and course material for the lower-level institutes, maintaining the quality of training throughout the system.
• Publications and documentation — it brings out studies, reports and teaching material on co-operative management. …