Current affairs: GOI plan for PACS, dairy and fishery cooperatives in Odisha
PACS, dairy, fisheries and multi-purpose cooperatives in Odisha ➣Government of India on 15th February, 2023, has approved the Plan for “Strengthening of Cooperative Movement in the Country and Deepening its Reach up to the Grassroots” ➣The Plan entails establishment of new multipurpose Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (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 Government of India (GoI) Schemes, including Dairy Infrastructure Development Fund (DIDF), National Programme for Dairy Development (NPDD), Pradhan Mantri Matsya Sampada Yojana (PMMSY), Fisheries and Aquaculture Infrastructure Development Fund (FIDF), etc ➣In the State of Odisha total 2,039 new Multipurpose (M)-PACS (1537 nos.), Dairy (451 nos.) and Fisheries (51 nos.) Cooperative Societies have been registered Read- https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleseDetail.aspx?PRID=2205540®=3&lang=1