Cooperative is an economically viable social enterprise in the study of JWSSPCFL

ABSTRACT

The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are considered worthy successors of the Millennium Development Goals. Generally accepted as one of the foremost priorities for most nations, the effort is to attain them in a time-bound manner. One important first step toward reaching the SDGs would be to lift people out of poverty and create an environment of socioeconomic empowerment. Achieving economic empowerment of the marginalized social groups through community-based initiatives is very crucial. Many such initiatives have been operationalized in different regions of India through cooperative movements and self-help groups. In this context, we have attempted to examine and analyze the Jharkhand Women’s Self-Supporting Poultry Cooperative Federation in Jharkhand, which is a resource-rich but economically backward Indian state.

KEYWORDS:

• Sustainability
• cooperative
• development
• poultry
• environment

Acknowledgments

The authors are very grateful to Dr. Pankaj Das, CEO, JWSSPCFL, for granting them the interviews and for his valuable inputs regarding this article. They would also like to express their gratitude to anonymous reviewers for their comments and suggestions.

Disclosure statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the authors.

Notes

1. Professional Assistant for Development Action or PRADAN is a society registered under the Society Registration Act 1960 in 1983. The organization is working in seven states of India, covering 36 poorest districts among India’s 100 most impoverished districts.

2. World Commission on Environment Development defined sustainable development as “a pattern of resource use that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only for the present generation but also for generations to come.”

3. It includes the total price of the sale minus the total cost of input minus service charge.

4. It is the lowest level democratic institution of the three-tier Panchayati Raj Institutions of India, found at the village level. The top-level institution is Zilla Parishad at the district level, and at the block level, there is intermediate Panchayat.