Gandhinagar:Former Gujarat minister, senior BJP and co-operative sector leader Dileep Sanghani has been re-elected as the chairman of the Gujarat State Cooperative Marketing Federation Ltd, popularly known as GUJCOMASOL.

Incumbent vice Chairman of the cooperative body and BJP MLA Govind Parmar has also been re-elected as Sanghani’s deputy.

Both of them were re-elected unopposed during the board meeting today.

Notably the GUJCOMASOL was considered as a stronghold of Congress earlier until the ouster of its former chairman Natwarlal Patel in April 2017 following a Supreme Court order.
The state government had after that appointed a senior officer of co-operative department as the administrator/custodian of it and later in July 2017 Sanghani was elected its Chairman for the first time.

GUJCOMASOL undertakes many types of activities and most of them are related with agriculture. Being a cooperative federation,its mission is to provide agriculture inputs like fertilisers, seeds, pesticides etc. to the farmers through cooperative channel. The Federation is procuring, processing and selling the agricultural produces. The Federation has a mission to give reasonable rates to the farmers for their agricultural produces and therefore agricultural produces are required to be processed and to make them value added.

The Federation has some processing units including Groundnut Processing Unit at Amreli, Rice Mill at Narol & Kalol, Pulse Mill at Narol and Cotton Ginning Pressing unit at Mehsana.

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