Nagaland min calls for continued central funds for cooperatives
Attending the one-day national conference of cooperation ministers of all states/UTs held under the chairmanship of Union home minister Amit Shah at Bharat Mandapam in New Delhi, Zhimomi said unlike other parts of the country, the cooperatives in northeast are managerially and financially weak and rely on govt support, especially on NCDC funding for taking up various business activities.
Zhimomi lauded the cooperation ministry's key initiatives such as the national cooperative database in streamlining the database and categorising cooperative societies across various parameters.
Pointing out that one key challenge in computerisation of primary agricultural credit societies (PACS) is the inability of the officials and secretaries to effectively understand and adopt the digitisation process, he suggested for deploying data entry operators at each PACS for a minimum period of three years, which will provide sufficient time for the PACS to build internal capacity and eventually employ operators at their own cost.
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