The Government on 15.02.2023, has approved the Plan for strengthening cooperative movement in the country and deepening its reach up to the grassroots. The Plan entails establishment of new 2 lakh Multipurpose Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies (M-PACS), Dairy and Fishery Cooperative Societies covering all the Panchayats/ villages in the country in the next five years, through convergence of various existing Government of India schemes, including Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF), National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD), PM Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), etc, with the support of National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD), National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB) and State Governments. In order to ensure effective implementation of the plan, a Standard Operating Procedure (Margdarshika) has been launched on 19.09.2024 indicating the targets and timelines for stakeholders concerned.

    In order to strengthen Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) through computerization, Government of India is implementing the Project for Computerization of functional PACS with a total financial outlay of ₹2,516 Crore, which entails bringing all the functional PACS onto an ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) based Common National Software, linking them with National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development (NABARD) through State Cooperative Banks (StCBs) and District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs). The ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning) based Common National Software brings about efficiency in PACS performance through Common Accounting System (CAS) and Management Information System (MIS).

    Proposals for computerization of 67,930 PACS from 30 States/ UTs have been sanctioned, for which Rs. 699.89 Cr. has been released as GoI share to the States/UTs concerned and Rs. 165.92 Crore to NABARD as implementing agency. As on 21.11.2024, total 4,0727 PACS have been onboarded on the ERP software including 2,505 PACS from the State of Uttar Pradesh. State-wise progress of digitization of PACS under the project such as ERP Onboarding, Hardware delivery, Go-live, etc, including the States of Uttar Pradesh is enclosed as Annexure.

 

    The details of progress in digitization of PACS as already mentioned in Annexure. Under the project, support is provided to PACS of Rs. 3.91 lakhs (approx.) per PACS which includes cost of hardware (Rs. 1,22,158/-), software (Rs. 72,103/-), training (Rs. 10,198/-), establishment of support system (Rs. 1,86,910/-), to all the States/UTs including the 5,754 sanctioned PACS of the State of Gujarat. Total 115 Master Trainers have been provided training under the project in the State of Gujarat.

Annexure

State-wise Progress of Digitization of PACS under Computerization of PACS Project

As on 21.11.2024

   This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Lok Sabha. 

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