The Father of the Nation, Gandhiji, spoke of cooperative societies as "ideally suited organizations" for "promoting group efforts by villagers". His protege and the main architect of modern India, Ft. Jawaharlal Nehru, emphasized. "In the economic structure of India, Cooperation is not even a free choice, it is a necessity. " The great leaders who shaped the destiny of free India, had recognized the potential of and had immense faith in the cooperatives...