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Buy air tickets from panchayats soon, says Shah
The New Indian Express Kozhikode
|February 13, 2025
UNION Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation Amit Shah said on Wednesday that each panchayat in the country will have a primary agricultural cooperative society (PACS).
"Currently, PACS are involved in booking railway tickets, and the Ministry of Cooperation is working to enable PACS to sell airline tickets as well," he said while presiding over the first meeting of the Parliamentary Consultative Committee of the Ministry of Cooperation on 'Initiatives to Strengthen Cooperative Societies'.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi once remarked that "people wearing 'hawai chappals' would travel by flight", and moving towards this vision, the NDA government is working to ensure that air tickets are accessible even in the remotest corners of the country's every panchayat.
This story is from the February 13, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Kozhikode.
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