Chandigarh, Sept. 9 -- Haryana is set to draft a State Cooperation Policy to strengthen and modernise the cooperative movement, chief secretary Anurag Rastogi said at a meeting of the State Cooperative Development Committee (SCDC) on Monday. The meeting was attended by senior officials from the Union ministry of cooperation. An official spokesperson said a committee will be formed within a week to prepare the draft policy. The framework will take into account the experiences of other states while addressing Haryana's unique requirements. It will lay out a roadmap to expand and upgrade cooperative institutions, enabling them to play a stronger role in rural development, housing, credit and allied sectors. The chief secretary has directed officials to diversify 34 primary agricultural credit societies (PACS) across the state, adopting best practices from successful models of other states. The cooperation department also announced plans to affiliate the Centre of Cooperative Management, Rohtak, with Tribhuvan Sahkari University, Gujarat, to strengthen cooperative education and capacity-building, enabling better training for members of cooperative institutions. Additional chief secretary, Cooperation, Vijayendra Kumar said digitisation of PACS is progressing rapidly, with 518 societies completing day-end processes digitally. Of these, 39 PACS are now using advanced dynamic day-end systems for real-time financial reporting and better monitoring of cooperative activities. Additionally, 338 have moved to the e-PACS platform, making services more accessible to rural communities. Online audits have also been introduced, with 57 PACS completing audits for the 2024-25 fiscal. Registrar Cooperative Societies, Rajesh Jogpal said the state aims to establish 477 new Multi-Purpose Cooperative Societies and 583 new Dairy Cooperative Societies by 2028-29 across all panchayats.htc...