i. To facilitate the operations of member cooperative Societies for furtherance of education and training for cooperative sector employees not for profit objective.
ii. To act as Premier Institute of cooperative Training, research and consultancy and work as intellectual nerve centre for cooperative Movement.
iii. To conduct training programmes for Officers of the Cooperative Department, employees and Directors of Apex and Central Cooperative Institutions and acquaint them with modern Scientific management concepts, methods and techniques, and thereby assist in the growth of professionalization in the Cooperative Managerial System. Training programmes may also be conducted for officers/officials or for any class of persons of any other department/organization on payment of charges fixed by the Governing Board from time to time.
4 iv. To conduct studies and research, in respect of any subject, arranged by any Cooperative Organization/department or by any other Organization/department.
v. To provide knowledge, technical know-how and consultancy service to the Cooperative Societies for increasing their operational efficiency and improve the decision making skills and administrative competence of Managers/Officers of Cooperative Organizations.
vi. To render professional assistance and advice to the Cooperative institutions in planning and Management and protect Cooperative values and principles.
vii. To organize training programme and conduct seminars, workshops, meetings, conferences and exhibitions etc. for the spread of Cooperative education, and to hold social and cultural gatherings, and also provide educational and training facilities to young men and women seeking .careers in Cooperative Sector, and award diplomas, certificates and other academic or professional distinction.
viii) To assist the Government, Cooperative Department and Cooperative Institutions in framing policies and programmes, and make recommendations and suggestions regarding reforms in the Cooperative movement.
ix) To provide boarding and lodging facilities to Cooperators and trainees who come from other places, and also provide various recreation faculties like Chess, Table Tennis, Badminton, Volley Ball, Basket Ball etc. to them on nominal charges as may be necessary for maintenance and upkeep of the premises.
x) to establish a library for use of Cooperators, scholars and trainees.
xi) To develop and strengthen relationship and collaboration between Cooperative organisations at State, National and International level and in order to promote national Integration may undertake to send Cooperators on study tours to other States of India and abroad.
xii) To meet the expenses of trainers for providing training to unemployed rural ladies at village level under Mai Bhago Women Empowerment Scheme framed by Punjab Government duly recommended by The Registrar, Cooperative Societies, Punjab, Chandigarh through primary cooperative societies or self Help Groups..
xiii) To do all such other things and acts which may be incidental and conducive to the promotion or advancement of the above objects of the PICT.
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