Dy CM Meets Shah Seeks Funding for Cooperative Sector Schemes

Deputy chief minister Mukesh Agnihotri met the Union home minister Amit Shah at New Delhi on Wednesday and urged him to allocate adequate funds to the state for implementation of various schemes in co-operative sector, including computerisation of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), state Programme Management Unit (PMU) and Institute of Cooperative Management (ICM) etc.

- HT Correspondent

SHIMLA:

Agnihotri apprised the Union minister that the state has already provided requisite land at Panjawar, Una and has provided a grant of ₹5 crore for setting up of ICM, further requesting ₹10 crore as grant-in-aid.

Agnihotri said that Himachal has made great strides in the computerisation project. As many as 870 PACS were identified in first phase, out of which 647 have been made Go-Live. An amount of approx. ₹18.57 crore has been spent on this. While in the second phase, 919 societies have been identified and digitisation work is under progress.