List of Societies, SAHAKARA SINDHU

In Karnataka, Cooperative Societies cover almost every sphere of social and economic activities. Consequently the State has wide variety and different types of cooperative societies. Through sustained efforts, co-operatives have made impressive progress in various segments of State economy particularly in agriculture credit disbursement, fertilizer distribution, procurement and distribution of agricultural commodities, promotion of consumer activities, dairy, fisheries and weavers, handloom, coir, urban co-operative banks, etc. There are 34,927 Co-operatives under the control of Registrar of Co-operative Societies, of which 30,093 are functional.

A comprehensive consolidated fact about the number of cooperative societies in Karnataka as on 31-03-2011.

Sl.No	PARTICULARS OF WORKING COOP SOCIETIES SECTOR WISE	TOTAL
1. JURISDICTION
1	Multi-State Level	13
2	State Level	123
3	Above District and below State Level	330
4	District Level	579
5	Above Taluka and below District Level	941
6	Taluka Level	2290
7	Below Taluka Level	31293
Total		35569
2. AUDIT CLASSIFICATION
1	"A" Classification	933
2	"B" Classification	6951
3	"C" Classification	20265
4	"D" Classification	3475
5	"N" Not audited	3945
Total		35569
3. FINANCIAL POSITION
1	Societies under Profit	17732
2	Societies under Loss	13275
3	Societies under Profit nor Loss	4562
Total		35569
4. WORKING POSITION
1	Working	30955
2	Defunct	2244
3	Liquidation	2370
Total		35569
5. COOPERATIVE SOCIETIES WHICH BELONG TO
1	Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes	627
2	Women	4467
3	Scheduled Castes	234
4	Scheduled Tribes	108
5	Minorities	521
6	General	29612
Total		35569

Sl.No	Types of Cooperative Societies	Working	Defunct	Liquidation	Total
1	Multi State Cooperative Societies	-	-	-	13 (Not Included in the Total list of Societies )
2	State level Cooperative Societies	41	1	3	45
3	District level Cooperative Societies	21	-	-	21
4	Primary Co-operative Agricultural and Rural Development Bank Ltd,.(PCARDB)	175	-	2	177
5	Primary Agriculture Co-operative Societies (PACS)	4764	24	126	4914
6	Large Size Adivasi Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies (LAMPS)	23	-	-	23
7	Sericulture growers Cooperative Societies	46	5	12	63
8	Sahakari Grain Banks	100	1	11	112
9	Urban Cooperative Banks	246	2	44	292
10	Other Credit Cooperative Societies	2174	148	117	2439
11	Employers Credit Cooperative Societies	1044	77	68	1189
12	Taluka Agriculture Primary Cooperative Marketing Societies(TAPCMS)	169	1	8	178
13	Other Marketing Cooperative Societies	113	13	19	145
14	Cooperative Sugar Factories	26	3	10	39
15	Processing Cooperative Societies	87	18	16	121
16	Cooperative Spinning Mills	10	1	6	17
17	Oilseed Growers Cooperative Societies	193	68	45	306
18	Livestock Cooperative Societies	269	64	42	375
19	Milk Producers Cooperative Societies	11574	501	392	12467
20	Cooperative Milk unions	13	-	2	15
21	Joint farming Cooperative Societies	58	12	125	195
22	Lift Irrigation Cooperative Societies	83	30	36	149
23	Water Users Cooperative Societies	2560	154	83	2797
24	Fisheries Cooperative Societies	483	33	31	547
25	Weavers Cooperative Societies	593	77	109	779
26	Other Industrial Cooperative Societies	204	49	114	367
27	Industrial Cooperative Societies	320	127	205	652
28	Consumer Cooperative Societies	1199	113	134	1446
29	Central Co-operative Whole sale Stores	26	2	9	37
30	Housing Cooperative Societies	1052	200	240	1492
31	Forest Labour Cooperative Societies	29	13	8	50
32	Labour Cooperative Societies	108	33	38	179
33	District Cooperative Union	29	-	3	32
34	District Cooperative Federation	6	-	-	6
35	Multi-purpose Cooperative Societies	1357	109	54	1520
36	Student Consumer Cooperative Societies	123	7	7	137
37	Women Multi-purpose Cooperative Societies	1077	200	109	1386
38	Garibi Hatavo Multi-purpose Cooperative Societies	32	8	2	42
39	Tailor Multi-purpose Cooperative Societies	13	16	9	38
40	Leather Cooperative Societies	24	11	20	55
41	Tree Planters Cooperative Societies	14	6	5	25
42	Hand Pounding Cooperative Societies	-	1	1	2
43	Washer men Cooperative Societies	6	3	1	10
44	Electricity Cooperative Societies	2	2	1	5
45	Transport Cooperative Societies	11	6	3	20
46	Co-operative Hospitals	8	3	3	14
47	Co-operative Printing press	20	9	6	35
48	Wool weavers Cooperative Societies	142	25	12	179
49	Other Cooperative Societies	288	68	79	435
	Total	30955	2244	2370	35569