The Lok Sabha on March 26, 2025 passed the Tribhuvan Sahkari University Bill, 2025 to establish the country’s first national cooperative university at the Institute of Rural Management Anand (IRMA) in Gujarat.
- It aims to revolutionise education, research and training in the cooperative sector.
- The university’s jurisdiction will be nationwide. The cooperative training institutes in all States will be registered as schools or colleges under the university.
- It will work on a hub-and-spoke model. It will have degree, diploma, and PhD courses.
- Around 8 lakh people are expected to get certification from the university per year.
- The University is named after Tribhuvan Kashibhai Patel, the founder of cooperative dairy giant Amul.
