Overview
- At the Earth Summit in Gandhinagar, Shah announced a plan to triple the cooperative sector’s share of GDP, establish one cooperative in every panchayat and exceed 50 crore active members.
- He launched NABARD’s Sahakar Saathi suite with 14 services, including Sahakar Setu for online loans, digiKCC for fully digitised Kisan Credit Cards, ePACS for 25,000 PACS and a Cooperative Governance Index.
- Officials said a cooperative taxi pilot in Delhi has attracted about 51,000 driver registrations, which Shah projected could grow into the country’s largest taxi network within two years.
- Shah reported 49 lakh farmers have adopted natural farming and said a nationwide organic testing network is being built with India Organics and Amul Organics to certify produce for domestic and global markets.
- During a review in Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar, Shah was told 1,349 ponds across 162 villages are being linked and he directed that deepening be finished before the monsoon to improve water storage.