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Cooperative movement in Tibetan community in exile started as early as 1963.
The primary objective of Tibetan co-operative movement is to attain social and economic betterment of Tibetan refugees which in turn contributes towards strengthening of sustainable Tibetan settlements.
Currently there are 15 Tibetan co-operatives in India, legally registered under 9 different State Co-operative Acts.
All these co-operatives run different activities which help contributes towards agriculture farming, cultural preservation, employment generation, and financial support to share members and general public.
For long time, Tibetan cooperatives had been in operation with least communication with other Tibetan cooperatives.
There was no common forum for these co-operatives for exchange of ideas and information in various aspects of its functioning.
The scope for strengthening cooperative movement within Tibetan community; cooperation and mutual-help among cooperatives was limited.
There was also one common problem which needs to be addressed i.
e, marketing of handcraft product.
The need of bringing all the co-operative societies functioning under one apex body in the form of federation was felt need.
With the consistent guidance and detailed plan from CTA, the first federal body of Tibetan co-operatives was legally registered on 20th April 2005 under the Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act, 2002, as Federation of Tibetan Co-operatives in India Ltd which is commonly known by name FTCI.
Presently there are more than 24,000 Tibetan refugees who are shareholders of 15 co-operatives.
FTCI and 15 co-operatives provide support and benefit to these shareholders in the field of Education, Finance, Employment, and Rural Development and so on.
There are over 160 staff in FTCI and over 600 staff in 15 co-operative societies.
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