Nandini Azad re-elected to the board of the International Raiffeisen Union

Appointment

Nandini Azad, president of the Chennai-based Indian Cooperative Network for Women (ICNW), has been elected to the board of the International Raiffeisen Union (IRU), one of the oldest cooperative bodies in the world responsible for evolving a global policy on cooperatives. in agriculture and other allied sectors. The ICNW is active in Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Karnataka, and Andhra Pradesh, with a membership of over six lakh poor women in the informal sector, and has facilitated 1.7 million loans across 14 Indian cities. Azad said their members are involved in 276 occupations (trading, production, services, manufacturing).


     

     

     

 

     


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