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Hukkeri Society Is Shining Example Of Cooperative Development Model

It supplies electricity to more than 125 villages.

Belagavi: The Hukkeri Rural Electricity Cooperative Society in Belagavi is a shining example of the cooperative model of development in the country. It was the first such institution in India and the only one in Karnataka that supplies power to more than 125 villages.

Founded by freedom fighter D Appannagouda Patil, it has been progressing for the last 56 years. In the process, thousands got employment with it.

A progressive farmer, Annagouda Patil, informed that Appannagouda was also the founder of Okkalutana Huttuvali Marata Sahakari Sangha in Sankeshwar.

“Appannagouda was a three-time MLA from Hukkeri and Sankeshwar constituencies. B

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