Union Home and Cooperation Minister lays Foundation Stone and Inaugurates various Projects of Haryana Cooperative Department in Karnal

• 15 Feb 2023

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On February 14, 2023, Union Home and Cooperative Minister Amit Shah laid the foundation stone and inaugurated various projects of Haryana Cooperative Department in Karnal.

Key points

• The country's first cooperation minister Amit Shah also inaugurated a cooperative milk plant here with a capacity to process 5 lakh litres of milk per day at a cost of around Rs 200 crore. This will benefit a lot of cattle farmers.
• Amit Shah said that an ethanol plant with a capacity of 90,000 liters per day has also been set up here at a cost of Rs 150 crore. Ethanol blending also reduces the country's import of petroleum products and the environment is also safe due to this organic fuel.
• The Union Home and Cooperation Minister said that at the time of formation of the government under the leadership of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in 2014, ethanol blending was less than 1 percent, which has increased to more than 10 percent today and further increased to 20 percent by 2025. Will go This will increase the income of sugar mills and APMC's waste and bad paddy will be used, which will also reduce the import bill of the country.
• Amit Shah said that it is very important to create awareness to make cooperatives relevant again and the backbone of rural economic activities and for this Internet Radio 'Sahakarita Vani' has been started here today. Through this, all the facilities and information will be available on tips for all packs and farmers.
• Amit Shah said that the NCDC, which is running under the aegis of the Government of India, has today released an amount of Rs 10,000 crore to Haryana for different works of cooperatives, which will be given to farmers' cooperatives at low interest.
• The Cooperative Minister said that a campaign has been started to make the District Cooperative Bank NPA free. In this year's budget, the Prime Minister has set a target of a big scheme for the country's cooperative, in which PACS will be established in every panchayat of the country before 2025 and 2 lakhs new PACS will be made.
• He said that 65 thousand packs have been made since independence, and a target has been set to make 2 lakh packs in the next 3 years. He said that the government has also brought a new cooperative policy, and, apart from this, the government of India has also established 3 cooperative societies.