LankaWeb – THE GENERAL ELECTION OF 1956 Part 4D
Posted on March 7th, 2021 KAMALIKA PIERIS Philip Gunawardene was the creator of the Multipurpose Cooperatives Society. Until 1956, the cooperatives had been single purpose ones. There were separate cooperatives for food distribution, for savings and loan disbursement. There were about 10,500 of cooperatives and they were of 70 different types. Philip decided to weld them into one organization, the Multipurpose Cooperative Society. By 1958 a fair number of Multipurpose Cooperatives were formed, others were converted. There was terrific enthusiasm on...
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