Study of personnel management in seleected cooperative super markets in India / K. K. Tamini and Ragnar Arvidsson

The International Cooperative Alliance is one of the oldest of existing international voluntary bodies. It is a world-wide confederation of cooperative organisations of all types. Founded by the International Cooperative Congress held in London in 1895, it has now (1970) 142 affiliates spread over 60 countries and serving over 255 million members at the primary level. It is the only international organisation entirely and exclusively dedicated to the promotion of Cooperation in all parts of the world.

Besides the Head Office of the ICA, which is in London, there are two other offices of the ICA. viz.. the Regional Office & Education Centre for South-East Asia located in New Delhi, India, and the Office for East and Central Africa at Moshi, Tanzania. The Regional Office in New Delhi was started in 1960 and the office in Moshi in 1968,

The main tasks of the Regional Office & Fducation Centre are to develop the general activities of the Alliance in the Region, to act as a link between the ICA and its affiliated national movements, to represent the Alliance in its consultative relations with the regional establishments of the United Nations and other international organisations, to pro mote economic relations amongst member-movements, including trad ing across national boundaries, to help in the supply of technical assistance, to conduct educational activities for the movements in the Region and to bring out publications on the various aspects of coope rative development.

A greater part of the activities of the Regional Office & Education Centre are 1 by the Swedish Cooperative Movement and the Swedish Intional Development Authority (SIDA) The Regional Office has so far conducted over 80 educational programmes of various sypes. These were attended by nearly 2.000 participants from the different countries of the South-East Asian Region.