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GOVERNMENT OF INDIA
MINISTRY OF COOPERATION
RAJYA SABHA
UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 3682
ANSWERED ON 25.03.2026
Digital empowerment of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
3682 Shri Ujjwal Deorao Nikam:
Shri Narhari Amin:
Smt. Kiran Choudhry:
Dr. Anil Sukhdeorao Bonde:
Dr. Parmar Jashvantsinh Salamsinh:
Shri Tejveer Singh:
Shri Narayana Koragappa:
Shri Masthan Rao Yadav Beedha:
Will the Minister of Cooperation be pleased to state:
(a) the number of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) that have successfully
migrated to the common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)-based national software as of
March, 2026;
(b) the measures taken to provide broadband connectivity and hardware (biometric devices,
printers) to PACS in remote and hilly areas to ensure that the digital divide is bridged;
(c) whether the National Cooperative Database (NCD) is now fully integrated with State level
Registrar of Cooperative Societies (RCS) portals through the newly released ‘Push APIs’ to
ensure real-time data synchronization; and
(d) if so, the details of the integration thereof?
ANSWER
THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION
(SHRI AMIT SHAH)
(a) The number of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) that have successfully
migrated to the Common Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) based national software as of
March, 2026 are at Annexure- ‘A’.
(b) The measures taken to provide broadband connectivity and hardware (biometric devices,
printers) to PACS in remote and hilly areas, to ensure that the digital divide is bridged, the
following steps have been taken:
(i) Brodband connectivity: - MoU has been executed between Digital Bharat
Nidhi (DBN) under administrative control of Department of
Telecommunication, GoI and NABARD for extending High-speed broadband
access to PACS including remote and hilly areas using Bharat Net.
(ii) Hardware (biometric devices, printers) to PACS: - Hardware (Computer
system, Webcam, VPN device, Printer, Biometric device) has been provided to
65,020 PACS, till date, which includes 3864 PACS in the remote and hilly areas
states of Andaman & Nicobar, Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu& Kashmir, Ladakh, Manipur, Meghalaya, Mizoram, Nagaland, Sikkim,
Tripura and Uttarakhand.
(c) & (d) The National Cooperative Database (NCD) has been developed by the Ministry
of Cooperation, Government of India, with the support of States/UTs. The data of
cooperative societies is collected, entered, and updated in the National Cooperative
Database (NCD) by nodal officers appointed by the States/UTs for this purpose.
Further, to ensure automatic data updates, synchronization, and efficient information
management, the NCD portal is being integrated with the portals of the Registrars of
Cooperative Societies (RCSs) of all States/UTs through APIs. As of 01.03.2026, the
States of Rajasthan, Chhattisgarh, Bihar, Mizoram, and the UT of Dadra and Nagar
Haveli and Daman and Diu have completed integration with the NCD portal.
******Annexure-‘A’
PACS Computerisation project Status as on 10th March 2026
S. States Approved PACS ERP Onboarded
No
1. ANI 46 46
2. Andhra Pradesh 2,037 2,021
3. Arunachal Pradesh 139 14
4. Assam 850 580
5. Bihar 4,495 4,481
6. Chhattisgarh 2,028 2,028
7. DNH&DD 9 4
8. Goa 86 53
9. Gujarat 6,216 5,750
10. Haryana 710 695
11. Himachal Pradesh 1,885 1,472
12. J&K 708 537
13. Jharkhand 2,797 1,493
14. Karnataka 5,894 4,555
15. Ladakh 10 10
16. Madhya Pradesh 5,455 4,536
17. Maharashtra 12,178 12,036
18. Manipur 308 205
19. Meghalaya 330 23
20. Mizoram 99 25
21. Nagaland 231 114
22. Odisha 4,240 0
23. Puducherry 45 44
24. Punjab 3,482 2,682
25. Rajasthan 8,525 6,445
26. Sikkim 131 107
27. Tamil Nadu 4,561 4,513
28. Tripura 475 268
29. Uttar Pradesh 6,257 3,076
30. Uttarakhand 1,216 669
31. West Bengal 4,187 3,384
Total 79,630 61,866