The Cooperative Movement offers opportunities to the educated youth to form their Cooperatives in newer gainful commercial areas, so that they can earn their livelihood in an institutionalized way and that too gracefully.
In pursuit to the above, the Cooperative Department has been engaged in registration of Cooperative Societies/Cooperatives in different economic areas like, agriculture, dairy. Poultry, housing, floriculture, medical, educational, consumer business, banking, micro credit, women empowerment, transport, vegetable growers Coop., Labour etc.Accordingly, Cooperative Institutions have been registered under either The Jammu and Kashmir Cooperative Societies, Act of 1989 or The Jammu and Kashmir Self Reliant Cooperatives Act of 1999 as both the Acts are concurrently in force in the UT.
Structure of Cooperative Sector under the Cooperative Societies Act of 1989 (sector-wise at various tiers):-