Address: National Council for Cooperative Training, 3, Siri Institutional Area, August Kranti Marg, Hauz Khas, New Delhi, India

NCCT shall have the following functions :-

    To formulate overall policies and plans relating to cooperative training;
    To organize and direct arrangements in regard to the training of personnel employed in the cooperative departments and cooperative institutions in the country;
    To assess periodically the needs of training for cooperative personnel to facilitate planning and designing of training arrangements (such assessment may preferably be for the Five Year Plan periods);
    To keep effective liaison with and coordinate the activities of Government of India, financing institutions, universities including agricultural universities, University Grants Commission, international agencies like the International Cooperative Alliance, etc., in matters relating to cooperative training;
    To establish and manage cooperative training institutions;
    To identify the problem areas of cooperative requiring research and organize research studies, to establish and manage cooperative research institutions;
    To arrange for training of teaching staff of cooperative training institutions;
    (viii) To ensure maintenance of high academic standards in cooperative education and training in various institutes in the country and suggest syllabi and standards of examinations for different courses;
    To promote education in cooperation in schools and colleges and for this purpose to suggest syllabi and standards of examination and arrange publication of standard text books on cooperation;
    To explore the possibility of obtaining recognition for Vaikunth Mehta National Institute of Cooperative Management as an institution of national importance or explore the possibility of its recognition as deemed to be university;
    To evaluate the various courses in cooperative training and suggest measures for improvement;
    To arrange for provision on consultancy services to cooperatives particularly on problems of management and
    To raise funds by way of grants, fees, subscriptions and contributions from Central Government, Cooperatives and other Institutions.