Shrikant Jichkar | CoopPeople | CoopWiki

Tenure/Life Period: September 14, 1954 – June 2, 2004
Association and Role within Society or Entity: Patron of the Central India Rural Consumer Cooperatives; and founder of advanced educational credit societies.
Contributions to the Cooperative Sector: Utilizing his multi-disciplinary academic background (holding degrees across medicine, law, and business), Jichkar built a network of student consumer cooperatives, rural grain banks, and medical aid cooperative trusts across Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.
He modernized the outdated bylaws of urban credit societies in central India, introducing early computerized ledger systems and digital double-entry bookkeeping. He organized extensive digital literacy camps for elected rural cooperative delegates to ensure proper financial auditing and democratic accountability at the primary level.
Awards and Recognitions: Recipient of multiple state-level cooperative leadership medals, and honored posthumously through dedicated university research chairs focused on his integrated rural development theories.