Every State has a State Cooperative Union as per the National Policy (adopted by the National Cooperative Union of India, New Delhi) with an object to create sustained faith in the Cooperative Ideology and to inculcate the spirit of Self-help and Self-reliance among the members.

The Andhra Pradesh State Cooperative Union is an Apex Organization formed on 10-01-1966 by merging the erstwhile “Andhra Desa Co-operative Union, Rajahmundry” (1919) and “Hyderabad Central Co-operative Union, Hyderabad” (1925) extending its area of operation to the entire State of Andhra Pradesh. After Reorganisations of the state the Byelaws of A.P. State Cooperative Union are amended and renamed as the Telangana State Cooperative Union Ltd., (w.e.f. 22-02-2016) vide Proceedings Rc.No. 3638/2015/PE, dated: 22-02-2016 by Commissioner for Cooperation & Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Telangana State, Hyderabad. 

It is an Apex Human Resource Development Organization for the employees and members in the cooperative fold with its area of operation extending to the entire state of Telangana.  Its head Office is located at H.No. 5-9-343, Jubilee buildings, Gunfoundry, Hyderabad.  There are two Coop. Training Centres under the executive control of the Telangana State Coop. Union Ltd., i.e., one at Hyderabad and another at Warangal.