Farmers, who are members of the Central Arecanut and Cocoa Marketing and Processing Cooperative Ltd, can now hope to have their children pass the civil service examinations.
The cooperative will soon launch a project under which the aspirants will be trained for the examinations.
Announcing this at the 40th annual general body meeting of the cooperative here on Tuesday, the president, Konkodi Padmanabha, said that 30 per cent of the member development funds will be reserved for the training.
The objective will be to help children of farmer members of the cooperative get into the Indian Administrative Service, Indian Police Service, Indian Foreign Service, Indian Revenue Service and other civil services for which examinations and interviews are conducted by the Union Public Service Commission.
Training will also be given to children for the examinations conducted by the Karnataka Public Service Commission.
Later Mr. Padamanabha told The Hindu that training and orientation will start from the pre-university level itself.
The cooperative will identify certain educational institutions where the training will be given. It will also sponsor the cost of training.
He said that there were many intelligent children of farmers who do not have proper guidance on how to enter civil services.
The number of civil servants from the State was less when compared to the representation from other states. The objective of the project was to ensure that as many children of farmers held the reign of the administration.
Mr. Padmanabha said that the privilege of entering into the civil services should not be the only domain of urbanites.
Earlier at the meeting Mr. Padmanabha said that the cooperative has plans to enter into the manufacturing and marketing of packaged drinking water from next year.
It was exploring if drinking water having some medicinal contents could be marketed.
The president said that more cooperative societies should enter into arecanut marketing.
There should be more cooperative arecanut buyers in the market to thwart attempts by some private traders to destabilise the market. Farmers too should sell their produce to cooperative societies who paid the “actual tax” to the government.
