Centre has taken steps to ensure no PACS falls financially sick: Amit Shah in Gujarat

Shah said, “Till PACS are not strengthened, the cooperation structure does not become strong. And therefore, we have started a campaign to register 2 lakh PACS in the country by 2029.”

“However, these PACS too will fall (financially) sick if we do not add activities in it. The Government of India has added 22 different occupations with PACS. And I am confident that through this initiative it will be ensured that no PACS fall financially sick,” he added.

The Cooperation Minister said that it is the duty of all the leaders of cooperative movement to strengthen the movement, which was started during the freedom struggle and which has been paralysed in a way as it ended in a major part of the country. “There is not much impact of it on Gujarat. But it is the responsibility of Gujarat’s cooperative leaders that the cooperation movement become symmetric and is developed equally; every district, every state is covered with cooperative (movement),” Shah said.

To strengthen the cooperative movement, Shah said, the Union government has so far taken 57 initiatives.

The minister also talked about a new initiative of circular economy in the dairy sector. He also talked about providing cattlefeed to all the animals in the state by cooperatives.

Shah suggested that a new experiment will also be done shortly in the dairy sector by having cooperatives dealing with animal’s dung and its skin, bones and horns after death. Shah added that arrangements will also be made at cooperative sector level to make instruments related to dairy sector for making products like ice cream, cheese and paneer.

“A beginning of this will be done from Gujarat itself,” Shah said.

The minister also pushed for the idea of “cooperation among cooperatives” wherein every coopoerative and its members have their bank accounts with district cooperative banks concerned.