General Profile
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The National Cooperative Council of Sri Lanka [NCC/SL] is the apex cooperative organisation and is an umbrella organisation of the entire Movement. As a member of the ICA, the NCC/SL acts as the spokesman of the Movement both within and outside the country. The NCC carries out education and training activities through its district councils, education centres and regional training centres. The National Institute of Cooperative Development, Polgolla, a government institution, has been incorporated with International Co-operative Training Institute and Centre for Human Resources Development as an institute for education and training. The NCC offers mainly two training programmes – Co-operative General Certificate Course and Co-operative National Higher Course.
Most of the cooperatives are engaged in various kinds of business activities such as Small Enterprising Developments (agricultural products, dairy products, textile, tea and coconut farming, Co-op Shops (Super markets), Coir products, Handicraft items, Clay productions, Consumer products and fruits and vegetables.
Sri Lankan government has already declared budget for the year 2008 to remove all the taxes imposed on the cooperative societies and past dues and Island wide modernization of structural network systems and mechanism of 305 multi Purpose Cooperative Societies to distribute essential consumer items through the branches of the same societies. Government has allocated one million rupee loan per a society to modernize to Budget Shops in each operational area of the consumer societies.
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