Model bylaws to make credit societies multi-purpose: Shah

AMRELI: The Centre plans to make primary agricultural credit societies (PACS) “multi-purpose” and model bylaws for the same are ready, Union home and cooperation minister Amit Shah said on Sunday.
The government also plans to form a multi-state cooperative society for seed culture and marketing as well as certification of organic products across the country, Shah said at the annual general meeting of seven cooperative institutions of Amreli district in Gujarat, where the assembly elections are due later this year.
“Seva Sahkari Mandali (PACS) will be made multipurpose with facilities for marketing, godowns, making gobar (dung) gas, electricity bill collection, facility for gas distribution agencies, Nal Se Jal scheme, etc.
Model bylaws are ready for this multi-purpose mandali, and it will be sent to you before September-end,” he said. “The country's PACS will be multi-purpose and profit making,” the minister said.