MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION RELATING 

 TO CO-OPERATION AND ASSOCIATION IN VARIOUS COUNTRIES. 



BRITISH INDIA. 



THE ACTIVITY OF THE CO-OPERATIVE SOCIETIES IN 1915-1916. — Report on the 

 Working of the Cooperative Societies in Assam for the Year ending on the 31st of 

 March 1916. — Assam Secretariat Printing Office, Shillong, 191 6. 



The comparative general situations of co-operative societies in Assam 

 on 31 March 1916 and 1915 appears from the following table : 



Societies : 



1914-1915 



1915-1916 



Members : 



1014-1515 



1915-1916 



Working capital: 



1914-1915 



1915-1916 



Central 

 Banks 



7 

 10 



449 

 503 



Rs. 

 1,96,427 

 3,29,275 



, Agricultural 

 Societies 



agricultural ' 

 Societies 1 



54 

 48 



Rs. 



2,769 



271 

 285 



13.698 



15.792 



Rs. 



3.47,241 



3,95,185 



20 

 * 18 



1,821 

 1.638 



Rs. 

 2,61,078 

 1,71.777 



Total 



301 

 315 



l6,022 

 17,981 



Rs. 



8,07,515 

 8,96,237 



All the agricultural societies had limited liability. All the societies 

 with few exceptions showed a profit on the year's working, but their progress 

 was seriously checked by the floods and the indifferent crops. 



Central Banks. — These banks have been grouped anew and therefore 

 the figures they submit for 1915-1916 cannot be compared with those of 

 the previous year. The paid-up share capital of the banks now classed 

 as central was Rs. 49,755 (i) in 1915-1916. Their profits amounted to 

 Rs. 12,554. These banks issued loans to agricultural societies at rates of 

 interest varjdng from 7 % per cent, to 12 ^ per cent, per annum. The total 

 amount thus issued during the year was Rs. 44,145 as against Rs. 57,045 

 in the previous year. It is the exception to find that loans are repaid 

 within the period fixed. 



(i) I rupee — is. 4^. 



