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Expansions of Co-operative Societies

Expansions of Co-operative Societies

A comprehensive National Cooperative Database (NCD) has been developed by Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India, with the support of State Governments. The data of all the Cooperative Societies from various sectors has been entered in the database by nodal officers appointed by the States/ UTs for this purpose. As perthe data available under NCD portal, the total number of registered Co-operative societies in Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh are 82,143 and 17,675, respectively. The State-wise details of Co-operative Societies registered in the countryincluding Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh is attached at Annexure-I.

Ministry of Cooperation, since its inception on 6th July, 2021, has undertaken several initiatives to realize the vision of “Sahakar-se-Samriddhi” and to strengthen & deepen the cooperative movement from Primary to Apex level Cooperatives in the country. List of initiatives taken and progress made so far, for revitalizing, bringing transparency, modernizing, creating competitiveness and capacity building of cooperative societies is attached at Annexure-II.

  The Government of India is providing financial assistance to the following schemes for capacity expansion of the societies:

 

i) Strengthening of PACS through Computerization: To strengthen PACS, a project for Computerization of functional PACS with a total financial outlay of ₹2,516 Crore has been approved by the Government of India, which entails bringing all functional PACS in the country onto a common ERP based national software, linking them with NABARD through State Cooperative Banks (StCBs) and District Central Cooperative Banks (DCCBs). A total of 67,009 PACS from 30 States/ UTs have been sanctioned under the project. The hardware has been procured by 28 States/UTs. A total of 25,674 PACS have been onboarded on ERP Software and 15,207 PACS have gone live. The GOI share amounting to Rs. 654.22 crore was released to 29 States/UTs in the years 2022-23, 2023-24 and 2024-25 for procurement of hardware, digitization, and setting up of support system.

 

ii) Computerization of Agriculture and Rural Development Banks (ARDBs): To strengthen the long-term cooperative credit structure, the project of computerization of 1,851 units of Agriculture and Rural Development Banks (ARDBs) spread across 13 States/ Union Territories has been approved by the Government. NABARD is the implementing agency for the project and will develop a national-level software for ARDBs. Hardware, support for digitization of legacy data, training to the employees, etc. will be provided under the project. So far, proposals from 10 States/UTs have been received and sanctioned. Further, GOI share amounting to Rs. 4.26 crore was released to 8 States/UTs in FY 2023-24 and FY 2024-25 for procurement of hardware, digitization, and setting up of support system.

 

The State/UT-wise and Year-wise details of funds released to the Co-operatives under Centrally Sponsored Project for “Computerization of PACS” and “Computerization of ARDB” are attached at Annexure-III.

 

iii)  Schemes implemented/ activities assisted by National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC):NCDC is a statutory organization which is under the administrative control of Ministry of Cooperation, Government of India. NCDC provides financial assistance to Cooperatives Societies/ Federations across the country. As per the information received from NCDC, in the last three years, the amount disbursed as loan is Rs. 1,34,670.90 crore while the amount disbursed as grants is Rs. 1,200.04 crore. The details of State-wise financial assistance disbursed by NCDC during the last three years is attached at Annexure-IV.

Annexure-I

State-wise details of Co-operative Societies registered in the country including Gujarat and Andhra Pradesh under NCD portal (as on 16.07.2024)

Sr. No.

State/UT

Total Number of Societies

1

Andaman and Nicobar Islands

 2,215

2

Andhra Pradesh

 17,675

3

Arunachal Pradesh

 1,228

4

Assam

 11,204

5

Bihar

 26,655

6

Chandigarh

 476

7

Chhattisgarh

 10,510

8

Delhi

 5,944

9

Goa

 5,467

10

Gujarat

 82,143

11

Haryana

 32,860

12

Himachal Pradesh

 5,170

13

Jammu and Kashmir

 9,488

14

Jharkhand

 11,472

15

Karnataka

 45,461

16

Kerala

 6,101

17

Ladakh

 271

18

Lakshadweep

 42

19

Madhya Pradesh

 53,134

20

Maharashtra

 2,22,324

21

Manipur

 11,294

22

Meghalaya

 2,944

23

Mizoram

 1,253

24

Nagaland

 8,115

25

Odisha

 7,581

26

Puducherry

 458

27

Punjab

 19,074

28

Rajasthan

 37,429

29

Sikkim

 3,797

30

Tamil Nadu

 22,057

31

Telangana

 60,619

32

The Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu

 535

33

Tripura

 3,142

34

Uttar Pradesh

 44,579

35

Uttarakhand

 5,360

36

West Bengal

 31,226

Total

 8,09,303

 

Annexure-II

Ministry of Cooperation, since its inception on 6th July, 2021, has undertaken several initiatives to realize the vision of “Sahakar-se-Samriddhi” and to strengthen & deepen the cooperative movement from Primary to Apex level Cooperatives in the country. List of initiatives taken and progress made so far are as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Annexure-III

State/UT-wise and Year-wise details of funds released to the Co-operatives under Centrally Sponsored Project for “Computerization of PACS” and “Computerization of ARDB” in the years 2022-23, 2023-24 & 2024-25

 

1.         GOI share fund released under Centrally Sponsored Project for “Computerization of PACS”

(in Rs.)

Sr No.

States/UTs

FY 2022-23

FY 2023-24

FY 2024-25

Total

1

Chhattisgarh

14,86,00,000

0

14,86,00,000

2

Madhya Pradesh

33,23,00,000

25,42,25,000

58,65,25,000

3

Andhra Pradesh

14,93,00,000

3,74,47,271

18,67,47,271

4

Punjab

25,52,00,000

0

25,52,00,000

5

West Bengal

30,54,00,000

0

30,54,00,000

6

Jharkhand

10,99,00,000

0

10,99,00,000

7

Manipur

2,55,00,000

0

2,55,00,000

8

Rajasthan

23,78,00,000

43,29,86,131

67,07,86,131

9

Uttar Pradesh

11,28,00,000

42,30,41,650

53,58,41,650

10

Arunachal Pradesh

15,00,000

12,00,000

27,00,000

11

Maharashtra

87,95,00,000

33,64,50,000

1,21,59,50,000

12

Tripura

2,95,00,000

1,12,50,000

1,51,65,354

5,59,15,354

13

Himachal Pradesh

9,56,00,000

7,32,00,000

16,88,00,000

14

Sikkim

1,18,00,000

90,00,000

2,08,00,000

15

Karnataka

40,25,00,000

15,39,00,000

55,64,00,000

16

Goa

32,00,000

12,50,000

44,50,000

17

Meghalaya

1,23,00,000

0

1,23,00,000

18

Mizoram

27,00,000

0

27,00,000

19

Assam

6,41,00,000

2,45,25,000

8,86,25,000

20

Bihar

32,95,00,000

0

32,95,00,000

21

Nagaland

36,00,000

2,45,68,555

2,81,68,555

22

Haryana

4,85,00,000

2,44,16,000

7,29,16,000

23

Tamil Nadu

33,20,00,000

12,48,20,000

45,68,20,000

24

Gujarat

0

58,30,00,000

58,30,00,000

25

Uttarakhand

0

3,68,74,057

3,68,74,057

26

Andaman and Nicobar islands

0

68,81,462

68,81,462

27

Ladakh

0

12,00,000

12,00,000

28

Jammu and Kashmir

5,25,00,000

1,51,78,040

6,76,78,040

29

Puducherry

44,00,000

16,75,000

60,75,000

Total

3,95,00,00,000

2,57,70,88,166

1,51,65,354

6,54,22,53,520

 

 

2.         GOI share fund released under Centrally Sponsored Project for “Computerization of ARDB”

(In Rs.)

Sr.No.

State/UTs

FY 2023-24

FY 2024-25

Total

1.

Puducherry

3,89,630

3,89,630

2.

Punjab

46,75,558

46,75,558

3.

Jammu & Kashmir

26,35,731

26,35,731

4.

Tripura

3,86,765

3,86,765

5.

Uttar Pradesh

1,27,20,267

1,27,20,267

6.

Karnataka

80,27,519

80,27,519

7.

Tamil Nadu

0

81,92,106

81,92,106

8.

Himachal Pradesh

0

56,10,032

56,10,032

Total

2,88,35,470

1,38,02,138

4,26,37,608

 

   Annexure-IV

State-wise details of financial assistance disbursed by NCDC

from 2021-22 to 2023-24

(Rs. In crore)

Sr. No.

Name of the State

2021-22

2022-23

2023-24

Loan

Grants

Total

Loan

Grants

Total

Loan

Grants

Total

1

Andaman & Nicobar Islands

1.69

1.69

2

Andhra Pradesh

2,828.57

3.02

2,831.59

9,686.20

48.50

9,734.70

13,269.90

10.23

13,280.13

3

Arunachal Pradesh

0.25

0.25

0.34

0.04

0.38

4

Assam

2.39

1.18

3.57

5.71

11.77

17.48

0.89

0.89

5

Bihar

2,800.00

57.90

2,857.90

4,000.00

53.75

4,053.75

800.19

15.63

815.83

6

Chandigarh

0.03

0.03

0.03

0.03

7

Chhattisgarh

12,400.00

0.87

12,400.87

8,500.00

2.23

8,502.23

18,990.00

1.35

18,991.35

8

Daman & Diu

0.11

0.11

9

Goa

10

Gujarat

33.29

4.11

37.40

364.83

5.97

370.80

578.90

8.09

586.99

11

Haryana

12,824.83

2.92

12,827.75

6,650.92

4.32

6,655.24

9,884.73

2.63

9,887.36

12

Himachal Pradesh

12.18

2.56

14.74

10.47

2.44

12.91

1.85

1.85

13

Jammu & Kashmir

0.13

0.13

0.57

0.57

0.71

0.71

14

Jharkhand

0.30

1.49

1.79

4.63

4.63

2.54

2.54

15

Karnataka

163.57

0.92

164.49

111.48

1.06

112.54

259.96

1.40

261.35

16

Kerala

362.45

9.39

371.85

677.05

27.69

704.74

272.33

3.56

275.89

17

Madhya Pradesh

471.25

5.85

477.10

275.48

8.92

284.40

318.93

3.93

322.86

18

Maharashtra

682.97

5.11

688.07

740.55

10.61

751.16

2,080.89

20.53

2,101.42

19

Manipur

0.04

0.04

22.13

8.25

30.38

4.66

1.95

6.60

20

Meghalaya

0.04

0.04

0.14

0.14

0.22

0.22

21

Mizoram

0.83

0.23

1.06

3.19

1.04

4.23

2.72

0.51

3.24

22

Nagaland

0.17

0.17

1.20

1.20

0.67

0.67

23

Odisha

3.52

0.54

4.06

1.61

1.61

0.28

2.96

3.24

24

Punjab

0.13

0.13

0.42

0.42

1,650.00

0.44

1,650.44

25

Puducherry

0.06

0.06

26

Rajasthan

0.04

7.75

7.79

0.09

4.82

4.91

60.40

5.68

66.09

27

Sikkim

0.14

0.14

0.22

0.22

28

Tamil Nadu

46.56

4.19

50.75

24.59

5.90

30.49

4.28

4.28

29

Telangana

990.66

101.55

1,092.20

9,091.26

213.71

9,304.97

11,931.00

243.11

12,174.11

30

Tripura

2.10

0.90

3.00

8.57

3.78

12.35

1.55

1.55

31

Uttar Pradesh

240.00

12.33

252.33

339.70

10.54

350.24

3.22

9.81

13.04

32

Uttarakhand

73.00

7.36

80.36

10.50

10.50

107.52

41.61

149.13

33

West Bengal

0.34

43.82

44.16

0.72

62.64

63.36

0.70

4.26

4.96

34

Delhi + Others

7.46

7.46

10.82

10.82

0.50

9.21

9.71

Total

33,939.08

282.00

34,221.08

40,513.29

518.10

41,031.40

60,218.53

399.94

60,618.47

 

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

  1. Making Primary Cooperatives economically vibrant and transparent

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