Article 243ZI

Part IXB — The Co-operative Societies · Constitution of India

Article 243ZI

Incorporation of co-operative societies. Subject to the provisions of this Part, the Legislature of a State may, by law, make provisions with respect to the incorporation, regulation and winding up of co-operative societies based on the principles of voluntary formation, democratic membercontrol, member-economic participation and autonomous functioning.

In plain wordsState legislatures write the rules for forming, regulating and winding up co-operative societies, but those rules must respect voluntary membership, democratic control by members, member economic participation and autonomous functioning. Members, not the government, are meant to run their society.

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