New Delhi, April 13 -- Union Home Minister and Minister of Cooperation, Amit Shah, on Sunday said Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) which previously offered only short-term agricultural loans, and earned merely about half a percent income, are now providing over 20 types of services and the new reforms will also increase their income.
Addressing the State Level Cooperative Conference in Bhopal, he said, "Today PACS have been allowed to provide services like Jan Aushadhi Kendra, water distribution, common service centres."
He said that more than 300 schemes are available to the people on PACS computers. One does not need to go out of the village to get railway tickets, electricity bills, water bills, birth and death certificates...