{"id":31198,"date":"2018-10-27T12:30:33","date_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=31198"},"modified":"2018-10-27T12:30:33","modified_gmt":"2018-10-27T07:00:33","slug":"punjab-plans-to-set-up-cooperative-rural-hubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/punjab-plans-to-set-up-cooperative-rural-hubs\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab plans to set up cooperative rural hubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/todays-paper\/tp-national\/tp-otherstates\/punjab-plans-to-set-up-cooperative-rural-hubs\/article22793112.ece\"><b>Punjab plans to set up cooperative rural hubs<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Context:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Punjab government plans to transform primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS) into \u2018cooperative rural hubs\u2019.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Introduction:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Additional Chief Secretary (Cooperation) D.P. Reddy has asked the department to set up rural hubs in selected PACSs in a phased manner across the State.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Mr Reddy directed the officers to draft a road-map within a period of 15 days for setting up rural hubs which could be made functional from April this year.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Besides this, more agricultural service centres should be established in the PACSs to provide agriculture implements on custom-hiring basis required by the farmers to cut their capital expenditures in purchase of costly tools.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Purpose:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The purpose of this attempt is to strengthen the primary agriculture cooperative societies and to boost their business.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Around 30% PACSs were in loses and others running with thin profits. So it was the need of the hour to strengthen these cooperative societies vis-\u00e0-vis to turn them into profit earning ventures.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Way ahead:<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to their existing agri-businesses these village level societies should be empowered to sell quality products of essential commodities, electronic goods and other items of daily needs in rural areas.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Punjab plans to set up cooperative rural hubs Context: The Punjab government plans to transform primary agriculture cooperative societies (PACS) into \u2018cooperative rural hubs\u2019. Introduction: Additional Chief Secretary (Cooperation) D.P. Reddy has asked the department to set up rural hubs in selected PACSs in a phased manner across the State. Mr Reddy directed the officers&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/punjab-plans-to-set-up-cooperative-rural-hubs\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Punjab plans to set up cooperative rural hubs<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704909101},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}