The National Cooperative Agriculture and Rural Development Banks’ Federation (NAFCARD) will organize the National Conference of ARDBs–2022 at the NCUI Auditorium, New Delhi, on July 16. Union Minister of Home Affairs and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, will be the chief guest. The conference culminates the sectoral programmes of ARDBs including public contact programme at ground level as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav.
The federation will also organise an award function on the occasion to felicitate SCARDBs in Kerala, Karnataka, Gujarat and West Bengal for outstanding performance in lending, recovery and improvement in other parameters of performance during 2020-21. Awards will also be presented to the four oldest Agricultural Rural Development Banks (ARDBs) in the country for ceaseless service to the rural sector for more than 90 years.
The technical session will deliberate on the roadmap for revival of ARDBs and finalize recommendations for submitting them to the government.
NAFCARD based in Mumbai is an apex body of the state cooperative agriculture and rural development banks in the country.
