Growth should not make the owners disappear

The large platform proposal looked like a quick way to give our network more work. Its₹24 crore annual gross-billings model was the number I noticed first. Then we examined the exclusivity and the way the service would appear to customers. The opportunity could change more than volume. It could make a cooperative of working owners increasingly dependent on one channel's choices. I had to explain that change before treating the larger model as the stronger strategy.

I am Shazia Tevmori, fictional CSO of Qemravi Parcel Cooperative in Belagavi. Eight hundred working members own the enterprise; 164 employees are counted separately. FY 26 gross customer billings were₹128 crore, with₹99 crore paid to members and₹29 crore retained before central costs. That retained amount is not profit. I am a salaried nonmember, leading twelve strategy colleagues through three leads within₹2.6 crore FY 2026–27 expense. Deepak is CEO, Farida leads operations, and the relevant governing and professional owners make the actual approvals and service decisions.

My thirty-four-year career began in commercial analysis and moved into cooperative network planning. I now ask how a proposal changes the relationships that make the enterprise useful. A federation can extend a service without making every partner one organisation. A cheaper central hub can move uncounted effort onto members. A request to collect money with a parcel can introduce a different responsibility from carrying the parcel itself. These questions do not make growth undesirable. They make its form important enough to discuss before the attractive headline becomes the only account of the choice.

Current focus

Cooperative partnerships, channel independence, member-centred network choices and the boundary around service adjacencies.

Conversations I welcome

A first external board contribution in member-serving enterprises or regional logistics, subject to fit and consent. IICA registration June 2026;assessment preparation unfinished, no exemption. No statutory appointment;twenty-six provisional days.