In the early years of this Century, the cooperative movement was introduced in India with the main objective of relieving the peasants form the burden of indebtedness and excessively high rate of interest. At present, co-operatives have emerged as dominant undertakings in vital sectors of the economy like agriculture, fisheries, housing, distribution of consumer goods, industrial development, handloom sector etc. ?Co-operatives its growth and new dimensions??contains 15 research writeups. This volume examines the entire gamut of issues relating to co-operative sector. The work will be of immense value to the policy-makers, planners, cooperators and researchers for formulating suitable policy implications in co-operative sector with the objectives of planned economic development of our country.