Uttarakhand's government, led by Chief Minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, mandated a 33% reservation for women in cooperatives covering 10 district cooperative banks, 670 multipurpose cooperative societies, the state cooperative bank, housing and construction cooperative federation, regional co-operative union, consumer cooperative federation, and Silk Federation, starting on International Cooperative Day. Minister Dhan Singh Rawat called it historic for women's empowerment.
