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PARLIAMENT CLEARS NCDC AMENDMENT BILL: DIRECT CENTRAL FUNDING OPENS FOR CO-OPERATIVES

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PARLIAMENT CLEARS NCDC AMENDMENT BILL: DIRECT CENTRAL FUNDING OPENS FOR CO-OPERATIVES

2 min read · Quick Read · HPT National Desk | New Delhi/Mumbai | 15 August 2026

The Rajya Sabha passed the National Co-operative Development Corporation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 by voice vote on 12 August 2026, a day after the Lok Sabha cleared it. Moved by Minister of State for Cooperation Murlidhar Mohol, the Bill amends the NCDC Act, 1962, and empowers the National Co-operative Development Corporation to extend loans and grants directly to co-operative societies and other entities engaged in co-operative development — removing the requirement that such funding be routed through state governments. The amendment also broadens NCDC's operational scope: it widens the statutory definition of ‘foodstuffs’, removes certain geographical restrictions on NCDC's activities, permits the Corporation to participate in the share capital of co-operative societies, and opens the door to financing industrial goods activities. Mohol told Parliament the changes carry no new budgetary allocation — “this Bill does not have any provision for additional budgetary financial assistance by the government,” he said, describing it instead as an expansion of NCDC's mandate and financial scope. The Bill now requires Presidential assent before its provisions can be notified and come into force. For Maharashtra, the timing is notable. The state's own Co-operative Societies (Amendment) Rules, 2026, notified on 18 June 2026, already allow a housing society undertaking self-redevelopment to borrow up to ten times the valuer-certified value of its land — well beyond the standard ten-times-reserves cap. Until now, societies exercising that borrowing headroom have depended on district co-operative banks or private financiers. A direct NCDC lending channel, once notified, could give self-redeveloping societies a central-government financing route for the first time, potentially easing one of the biggest practical obstacles to self-redevelopment — arranging construction finance without a builder-partner.
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