Achievements

We work towards a better life for fisherman community, we believe in changing lives. One of the shining examples towards this is woman empowerment, yes we did helped a fisher woman stand on her feet and do look into the eyes of the world and say yes, I have got trained at Kakinada, I can take care of my family by fish cultivation, yes COFFED has helped me stand on my feet.

We don't see achievements as a way to boast ourselves, for us achievements reminds us we have attended only few things and we have a long way to go. Our main achievements since inception in 1951 are:

• Formation of new fishermen self supporting society
• Starting up fisheries co-operative movement
• We got the status of agriculture for fisheries, which helped fishermen get all the privileges like relief schemes, insurance, loan and other benefits enjoyed by a farmer.
• Adoption of Inland Fisheries society as a Subsidiary organization of COFFED for over all development of fishermen community.
• Launching of Janshree Bima Yojna insurance scheme and covering more than 64,000 fishermen according to the scheme.
• Providing fishermen credit card to the number of co-operative societies.
• Providing insurance coverage of rupees 1,00,000 to the members of co-operative society.
• Starting up educational cell COFFED Gurukul for the free education of poor fisherman kids.
• Implementation of Bihar Jalkar Parbandhan Adhinium 2006 (Bihar Act 13,2006)
• Govt. notification on and announcement of fisherman day on 10th July.
• Training of more than 800 fishermen at Kakinada.
• Distribution of medicine and feed supplement to the fishermen on subsidized rate.
• Survey of ponds and tanks.
• Seven year settlement of Ponds and Jalkars in place of three.
• Appointed 240 Bimamitra for the implementation of insurance policies.
• Publication of annual reports.
• More than 225 fisheries co-operatives affiliated with the COFFED since its formation.
• Supply of live fish on experimental basis at Patna.
• Announcing the jobs under technical cell for the progressive and modern approach to fish farming.
• Compilation of all the data, records, communiqué regarding fisheries, available under RTI.
• We got COFFED affiliated to NAF (National Association of Fisherman) and FISHCOPFED, New Delhi.
• We got micro-insurance agency from LIC & OIC

Long term demands

• Establishment of Technical and Promotional Cell in COFFED under NCDC scheme.
• Appointment of COFFED representatives in every Fish Farmer Development Agency.
• Raising the insurance amount from one lakh to five lakh rupees.
• Honoring the fishermen of the state for their contribution towards growth of fisheries, on 10 July the Fisheries day in following form: Matasya Kishan Shri award one lakh, Matasya Kishan Bhushan two lakhs, Matasya Kisan Ratna with five lakhs.
• A separate building on the lines of Haj Bhawan at Patna.