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DEVELOPMENTAL DEPARTMENTS
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DEPARTMENT OF Industrial co-operatives
and village industries.
Organisation.
THERE IS AN ASSISTANT DIRECTOR OF COTTAGE INDUSTRIES and Assistant Registrar for Industrial Co-operatives, Kolhapur Division which covers Kolhapur, South Satara and North Satara districts. Under him at the district level, there is a District Officer for Cottage Industries and Industrial Co-operatives. There are three Industrial Supervisors of Grade I, an Industrial Supervisor of Grade III, a Handloom Supervisor, an instructor in cotton weaving and some clerical staff.
Industrial Co-operative Societies in Kolhapur number 110, with an aggregate share capital of Rs. 3,56,302, reserve funds amounting to Rs. 2,36,535 members' deposits amounting to Rs. 5,80,997 and the working capital coming to Rs. 16,43,422. These embrace a variety of industries like weaving, beekeeping, carpentry, motor transport, pottery, wool weaving, etc. Table No. I supplies detailed information about their character, membership, etc.
Government conducts a wool weaving school, a leather works school and a hosiery training-cum-production centre at Kolhapur, a fibre work school at Talsande-Hatkanangale, a lacquer work school at Kale-Panhala, one tailoring school at Kale and another at Haldi-Karvir and a village pottery unit at Kadoli. Seven of these eight are peripatetic schools.
The work done in the community project area and the national development blocks showed that there were 42 industrial co-operative societies of different types; of these 29 societies were in receipt of loans of varying sums. Five weavers' society carry on activity under the handloom development scheme. Sales depots were also under contemplation.
As a first step in the development of an industrial estate (Shivaji Udyam Nagar), in this district, a co-operative society named the Kolhapur Udyam Co-operative Society Ltd., was organised and registered in November 1957. Government advanced a sum of Rs. 3,76,000 for the development of the industrial estate in 1957-58.
TABLE No. I.
STATEMENT GIVING THE INFORMATION OF ALL TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE
SOCIETIES IN KOLHAPUR DISTRICT FOR THE
YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE 1957.
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Serial No. |
Name of the Industry. |
No of Societies. |
No. of members. |
No. of looms. |
No. of
looms. Registered. | |
1 |
2 |
3 |
4 |
5 |
6 |
|
1 |
Weavers Co-operative Societies |
36 |
3,466 |
10,000 |
5,149 |
|
2 |
Bee Keepers Co-operative Societies |
2 |
98 |
-- |
-- |
|
3 |
Oil Producers Co-operative Societies. |
2 |
28 |
-- |
-- |
|
4 |
Kurmure Pohe Producers Co-operative Societies |
3 |
97 |
-- |
-- |
|
5 |
Metal Workers Co-operative Societies |
2 |
126 |
-- |
-- |
|
6 |
Carpenters Co-operative Societies |
5 |
129 |
-- |
-- |
|
7 |
Mahila Audyogik Co-operative Societies |
4 |
109 |
-- |
-- |
|
8 |
Labourers Co-operative Societies |
10 |
548 |
-- |
-- |
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9 |
Motor Transport Workers
Cooperative Society |
1 |
136 |
-- |
-- |
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10 |
Cine Industry Co-operative Society |
1 |
85 |
-- |
-- |
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11 |
Tanners and Leather Workers Cooperative Societies |
15 |
319 |
-- |
-- |
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12 |
Kumbhar (Potters) Co-operative Societies |
8 |
456 |
-- |
-- |
|
13 |
Rope makers Co-operative Societies |
5 |
107 |
-- |
-- |
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14 |
Wool Weavers Co-operative Societies. |
5 |
221 |
-- |
-- |
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15 |
General Co-operative Societies |
2 |
836 |
-- |
-- |
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16 |
District Industrial Co-operative Association |
1 |
44 |
-- |
-- |
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17 |
Forest Labourers
Co-operative Societies |
8 |
738 |
-- |
-- |
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Total |
110 |
7,443 |
10,000 |
5,149 |
* No. of looms under productive activity.
TABLE No. I.
STATEMENT GIVING THE INFORMATION OF ALL TYPES OF INDUSTRIAL CO-OPERATIVE
SOCIETIES IN KOLHAPUR DISTRICT FOR THE
YEAR ENDING 30TH JUNE 1957.―continued |
Looms of the Societies' members. |
Share Capital. |
Reserve Fund. |
Members, non-members' deposit. |
Government Loan. |
Working Capital. | |
7 |
8 |
9 |
10 |
11 |
12 | |
Rs. |
Rs. |
Rs. |
Rs. |
Rs. | |
4,804 |
1,17,349 |
1,31,441 |
1,23,165 |
1,27,743 |
5,74,002 | |
604* |
1,176 |
604 |
968 |
-- |
3,984 |
-- |
2,875 |
49 |
700 |
-- |
14,376 |
-- |
3,030 |
99 |
225 |
7,217 |
10,571 |
-- |
4,510 |
132 |
3,000 |
-- |
7,883 |
-- |
5,507 |
190 |
4,804 |
10,863 |
21,346 |
-- |
1,830 |
499 |
683 |
800 |
3,875 |
-- |
6,480 |
4,377 |
8,620 |
7,000 |
26,726 |
-- |
6,200 |
21,806 |
22 |
-- |
28,026 |
-- |
13,340 |
83 |
11 |
-- |
13,423 |
-- |
15,025 |
723 |
3,473 |
24,264 |
65,893 |
-- |
8,302 |
3,550 |
419 |
10,290 |
25,160 |
-- |
1,895 |
1,115 |
301 |
5,188 |
7,569 |
-- |
3,675 |
513 |
609 |
2,000 |
13,128 |
-- |
95,725 |
62,110 |
215 |
-- |
4,22,834 |
-- |
60,840 |
184 |
4,06,931 |
1,06,875 |
3,59,367 |
-- |
8,603 |
9,060 |
26,851 |
1,616 |
45,259 | |
4,804 |
3,56,302 |
2,36,535 |
5,80,997 |
3,03,856 |
16,43,422 | |
604* | | | | | |
* No. of looms under productive activity.
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