<h1>Right to form cooperative societies urged to be secured, with state laws aligned to strengthen democratic and autonomous cooperatives.</h1> States are urged to amend state cooperative societies legislation to align with the 2011 constitutional amendment so cooperatives operate as democratic, professional, autonomous and economically sound institutions; the amendment secures the right to form cooperative societies and allocates legislative competence to Parliament for multi state cooperatives and to State Legislatures for other cooperatives, accompanied by national policy, legislative measures, education and financial support to revitalise cooperative governance and credit structures.