As per information received from the Registrar of Cooperative Societies, Karnataka, there are about 45,926 cooperative societies in various sectors in the State of Karnataka including 6,040 Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS). The district wise list of cooperative societies including PACS is enclosed at Annexure.
A Centrally sponsored project for Computerization of functional PACS/ LAMPS across the country, including the State of Karnataka, with a total financial outlay of Rs. 2,516 Crore is under implementation. Project Monitoring Units (PMUs) have been set up at Central and State Levels and development of software has also been started by NABARD. As per the Guidelines of the Project, the target for completion of computerization of 63,000 PACS is 31.3.2025 and that for handholding support is 31.3.2027.
A proposal for computerization of 5,491 PACS in the State of Karnataka has been recommended by NABARD and an amount of Rs. 25.45 crore has been released as 1st instalment of the Central Government share to the State of Karnataka for procurement of hardware, establishing of support system, etc.
District wise number of PACS recommended for computerization in the State of Karnataka is also enclosed at Annexure.
The Ministry of Cooperation in consultation with States/UTs & other stakeholders concerned, has prepared Model Bye-laws for PACS to diversify their activities to transform them into Multipurpose Cooperative Societies. Model byelaws have been circulated to all the States/UTs, including the State of Karnataka, on 05.01.2023 for their adoption by PACS subject to their respective State Cooperative Societies Acts. The Model Bye-laws would enable PACS to carry out more than 25 business activities such as dairy, fisheries, food grain storage, LPG/CNG/Petrol/Diesel distributorship, common service centers, Fair Price Shops (FPS), etc.
In addition to the above, a proposal has been approved by the Government to set up two lakh new multi-purpose PACS or primary dairy or fishery cooperative societies across the country, including the State of Karnataka, covering every Panchayat/Village in the next five years by taking advantage of various existing schemes.
District-wise list of PACS of the State of Karnataka
|
Sl. No.
|
Name of the district
|
No of
Cooperative Societies
|
No of PACS
|
No of PACS taken up for
computerization in the first phase
|
|
1
|
BANGALURU URBAN
|
2776
|
46
|
37
|
|
2
|
BANGALURU RURAL
|
1127
|
78
|
69
|
|
3
|
RAMANAGAR
|
1334
|
101
|
98
|
|
4
|
BAGALKOT
|
1989
|
284
|
265
|
|
5
|
BELGAUM
|
6111
|
1318
|
1156
|
|
6
|
BELLARY
|
1568
|
197
|
177
|
|
7
|
BIDAR
|
1305
|
188
|
188
|
|
8
|
CHIKMAGALUR
|
616
|
129
|
128
|
|
9
|
CHITRADURGA
|
1028
|
165
|
149
|
|
10
|
DAVANAGERE
|
1456
|
181
|
176
|
|
11
|
HASSAN
|
1977
|
228
|
215
|
|
12
|
DHARWAD
|
1076
|
165
|
152
|
|
13
|
GADAG
|
1083
|
179
|
160
|
|
14
|
HAVERI
|
1323
|
231
|
227
|
|
15
|
KALABURAGI
|
1543
|
231
|
179
|
|
16
|
YADGIR
|
871
|
108
|
86
|
|
17
|
KODAGU
|
342
|
76
|
76
|
|
18
|
KOLAR
|
1609
|
104
|
85
|
|
19
|
CHICKBALLAPUR
|
1575
|
159
|
116
|
|
20
|
MYSURU
|
2526
|
201
|
176
|
|
21
|
CHAMARAJNAGAR
|
820
|
105
|
103
|
|
22
|
MANDYA
|
2217
|
235
|
227
|
|
23
|
NORTH KANARA
|
941
|
179
|
156
|
|
24
|
RAICHUR
|
1288
|
140
|
135
|
|
25
|
KOPPAL
|
829
|
125
|
115
|
|
26
|
SHIMOGA
|
1268
|
176
|
167
|
|
27
|
SOUTH CANARA
|
871
|
122
|
121
|
|
28
|
UDUPI
|
681
|
57
|
56
|
|
29
|
TUMKUR
|
2222
|
242
|
230
|
|
30
|
VIJAYAPURA
|
1554
|
290
|
266
|
|
TOTAL
|
45926
|
6040
|
5491
|
This was stated by the Minister of Cooperation, Shri Amit Shah in a written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha .
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