Section 6 — Objects of University.

The objects of the University shall be---

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(i) to provide qualified and trained manpower to meet the present and future needs of the cooperative sector by establishing its own Schools or through affiliating institutes;

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(ii) to provide training, education and capacity building to the employees and board members of co-operative societies at all levels;

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(iii) to act as an apex body to integrate, coordinate, and standardise the academic and research activities of affiliated co-operative institutes and training centres;

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(iv) to standardise the course design and content, pedagogy, course delivery in co-operative education and training in accordance with the national and international best practices and the guiding principles specified in the First Schedule to this Act;

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(v) to develop centres of excellence in co-operative education, training, research and consultancy;

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(vi) to evolve as an institution of national and international repute for advanced studies in the field of co-operative education and training, and any other areas connected with co-operative societies;

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(vii) to disseminate and advance knowledge by providing institutional and research facilities in the field of co-operative education and training, and to take appropriate measures for promoting innovations in teaching-learning process and inter-disciplinary studies and research;

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(viii) to establish Schools and affiliate institutes for imparting the state-of-the-art education and training in the field of co-operation for all sectors;

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(ix) to provide distance learning or mass e-learning platform and courses for serving the education and training needs of the co-operative societies;

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(x) to undertake and promote research and development in all sectors relating to co-operatives;

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(xi) to promote innovation, entrepreneurship and start-ups in the co-operative sector;

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(xii) to establish and promote partnership and linkages with co-operative societies or unions or federations at all levels, industry, Institutions, Governments, International Co-operative Alliance and co-operative educational institutions in India and abroad for furtherance of its objects;

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(xiii) to discharge any other objects which the University deems fit to undertake for the furtherance of its objects; and

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(xiv) to discharge such other objects, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act and the Statutes made thereunder, which the Central Government may, by notification, specify in this behalf.

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