World’s Largest Cooperative Foodgrain Storage Scheme to Transform PACS into Rural Growth Engines: Amit Shah

As on 15.11.2025, Odisha has 7,595 cooperative societies and 94,92,273 members across all districts, As of November 15, 2025, a total of 30,083 new PACS, Dairy and Fishery Cooperative Societies registered; and 15,793 Dairy and Fisheries Cooperative Societ

By Our Correspondent NEW DELHI/BHUBANESWAR: Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Shri Amit Shah in a written reply in Rajya Sabha in order to realise the vision of ‘Sahakar Se Samriddhi’, the Ministry has taken various initiatives for development of Cooperative Sector. One such initiative is approval of the plan to establish new multipurpose PACS/dairy/fisheries cooperatives, aiming to cover all panchayats and villages in the country over the…

World’s Largest Cooperative Foodgrain Storage Scheme to Transform PACS into Rural Growth Engines: Amit Shah

NEW DELHI, DECEMBER 2025:  Union Minister for Home and Cooperation Amit Shah, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha, informed that the Government of India has approved and launched the World’s Largest Grain Storage Plan in the Cooperative Sector to address the critical shortage of foodgrain storage capacity in the country. Approved on 31 May 2023, the Plan is being implemented as a Pilot Project through the convergence of multiple existing Governm…