Choudhary Brahm Prakash | CoopPeople | CoopWiki

Association and Role within Society or Entity: Founder of the National Confederation of Cooperatives; first Chief Minister of Delhi; and Union Minister for Agriculture, Irrigation, and Cooperatives.
Contributions to the Cooperative Sector: Prakash championed the cause of a completely autonomous, de-politicized cooperative sector across India. He chaired the famous Planning Commission Committee that drafted the "Model Cooperative Law," which sought to free cooperative societies from restrictive, top-down bureaucratic controls and registrar interference.
He was instrumental in shaping the institutional reach of the National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC). Prakash built massive rural supply chain networks across Punjab, Haryana, and Uttar Pradesh, ensuring that vital agricultural inputs like high-yield seeds, fertilizers, and heavy machinery were distributed through member-governed outlets rather than private distributors, establishing cooperatives as a pillar of the Green Revolution.
Awards and Recognitions: The Government of India issued a special commemorative postage stamp in 2001 to honor his lifelong legacy as a champion of cooperative governance and rural empowerment.