Government on 15.02.2023, has approved the Plan for strengthening cooperative movement in the country and deepening its reach up to the grassroots. The Plan entails establishment of new multipurpose PACS or primary dairy/ fishery cooperative societies covering all the Panchayats/ villages in the country in the next five years, through convergence of various existing GOI schemes, including Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF), National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD), PM Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), Fisheries & Aquaculture Infrastructure Fund (FIDF), etc. This plan is being implemented with the support of National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC), National Bank for Agricultural and Rural Development (NABARD), National Dairy Development Board (NDDB), National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), National Level Cooperative Federations and State Governments. Further, a Standard Operating Procedure (Margdarshika) has been issued, detailing targets, timelines, institutional framework, and roles of stakeholders for smooth and uniform implementation.  A multi-tiered institutional framework involving States/UTs and concerned agencies has been formed:

1. Inter-Ministerial Committees (IMC) with Hon’ble Cooperation Minister as chairman and Hon’ble Ministers and Secretaries of GoI Ministries/ Departments concerned as members, has been constituted.
2. National Level Coordination Committee (NLCC) has been constituted under the chairmanship of Secretary, Ministry of Cooperation, GoI and Secretaries of concerned Ministries/Departments of the Government of India, and other stakeholders concerned as members, to steer the overall implementation of the initiative.
3. State Cooperative Development Committee (SCDC) has been constituted at the State level under the chairmanship of the Chief Secretary and District Cooperative Development Committee (DCDC) has been constituted at the district level under the chairmanship of the District Collectors, to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of the initiative at district level.
4. Further, Joint Working Committees (JWC) at the district level have also been formed by States/ UTs to ensure timely execution of the plan at the grassroots level.

The State-wise details of the newly formed societies across the country, including the State of Jharkhand is at Annexure.   

Annexure

S. No	State	PACS	DCS	FCS	Grand Total
1	ANDAMAN AND NICOBAR ISLANDS	1	1	11	13
2	ANDHRA PRADESH	11	1,034	2	1,047
3	ARUNACHAL PRADESH	121	15	20	156
4	ASSAM	469	591	81	1,141
5	BIHAR	57	4,589	2	4,648
6	CHHATTISGARH	469	351	322	1,142
7	GOA	37	5	3	45
8	GUJARAT	525	706	23	1,254
9	HARYANA	31	161	6	198
10	HIMACHAL PRADESH	116	708	6	830
11	JAMMU AND KASHMIR	216	1,313	36	1,565
12	JHARKHAND	127	257	177	561
13	KARNATAKA	243	1,097	45	1,385
14	KERALA	0	0	0	0
15	LADAKH	3	3	1	7
16	LAKSHADWEEP	0	0	7	7
17	MADHYA PRADESH	663	874	226	1,763
18	MAHARASHTRA	149	1,140	161	1,450
19	MANIPUR	104	24	67	195
20	MEGHALAYA	228	16	7	251
21	MIZORAM	97	2	2	101
22	NAGALAND	18	5	18	41
23	ODISHA	1,543	679	59	2,281
24	PUDUCHERRY	4	3	3	10
25	PUNJAB	1	463	43	507
26	RAJASTHAN	1,387	2,174	22	3,583
27	SIKKIM	24	61	3	88
28	TAMIL NADU	28	794	25	847
29	TELANGANA	0	173	102	275
30	THE DD & DNH	6	1	2	9
31	TRIPURA	288	2	19	309
32	UTTAR PRADESH	1,099	4,340	486	5,925
33	UTTARAKHAND	621	263	120	1,004
34	WEST BENGAL	24	137	3	164
Grand Total		8,710	21,982	2,110	32,802

This information was given by Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Shri Amit Shah in a written reply in Rajya Sabha

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