Home Minister Amit Shah launches CRCS office’s digital portal in Pune

Union home minister Amit Shah launched the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune on August 6, 2023.  With this becoming completely digital, all the work of cooperative societies like opening new branches, expansion to other states or auditing, will be done online now.

This portal includes all the activities of registration, amendment of bylaws, auditing, monitoring of auditing by Central Registrar, the entire process of election, development of Human Resources, vigilance and training.

 “The culture of cooperatives spread across the country from Maharashtra only and Cooperative model of Maharashtra is taking the cooperative movement forward in the country,” said home minister Amit Shah.

This online portal is in line with PM Modi’s idea of Sahkar Se Samriddhi. The cooperative movement is the right way through which many people with small capital can come together to set up big enterprises. Around 1,555 multi-state cooperative societies of India will be benefited by the portal with close to 42% being in Maharashtra only.

Also, the government is going to computerise the offices of registrar of cooperative societies of the states which will ease the communication with 8 lakh cooperative societies across the country.  As part of the plan, the government has decided to take the cooperative movement to every village by creating three lakh new PACS across the country in the next five years.

Shah added that recently the Multistate Cooperative Societies Act has also been amended. He said that under this law, we have made electoral reforms, set many new dimensions for cooperative governance, arrangements for financial discipline and supply of funds, arrangements for ease of business, an independent body like Election Commission for elections, changes in the rules of running the board and has fixed the responsibility of the Board of Directors and employees to bring transparency. The Multi-State Cooperative Societies Act, 2022, will fix the accountability of cooperatives and end nepotism so that young talent will be able to join the cooperative movement.