The cooperative culture that has spread throughout the country originated in Maharahstra and the cooperative model of Maharashtra is driving the movement ahead in the country, said Union Minister of Cooperation Amit Shah.
He launched the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune on Sunday.
Shah said that 1,555 multi-state cooperative societies in the country will benefit from the portal and 42% of these societies are in Maharashtra.
“This shows the strength of cooperative movement in Maharashtra,” he said adding all the work of these societies will now be done through the portal.
The government is planning to computerise the offices of the registrar of cooperative societies of the states which will ease the communication with eight lakh cooperative societies across the country.
Shah said, “It has been decided to make Primary Agriculture Societies (PACs) viable.”
He said that the government has decided to take the cooperative movement to every village by creating three lakh new PACS across the country in the next five years.
“At least 93,000 PACS have been made in the last 70 years and three lakh new PACS will be made in the country in the next five years,” he said. The work of computerisation of all PACS in the country is complete, he said.
{{/usCountry}}“At least 93,000 PACS have been made in the last 70 years and three lakh new PACS will be made in the country in the next five years,” he said. The work of computerisation of all PACS in the country is complete, he said.
{{/usCountry}}He said that PACS are now Common Service Centers (CSC) which can perform a wide range of activities.
According to Shah, 95% work of creating the National Cooperative Database has been completed.
“We are also coming up with a new cooperative policy. We are building a cooperative university through which the system of technical education of the cooperative and all its extensions will also be linked to it.
The government has created three new multistate cooperative societies.
“A society has been formed for the marketing of multi-state organic products, which will ensure the marketing of natural farming products with the Bharat Brand and sending its full profit to the farmer’s account,” he said.
Closed-door meeting
After arriving in Pune, Shah held a meeting with Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Devendra Fadnavis and Ajit Pawar late on Saturday. The meeting lasted for two and half hours which the Union home minister took a review of all 48 Lok Sabha constituencies, said sources from BJP.