Lok Sabha Question No. 2622 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2023-12-19
Subject: Cooperative Societies in Jharkhand
Ministry: COOPERATION
Asked by: Sanjay Seth

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF COOPERATION

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO. 2622 TO BE ANSWERED ON 19/12/2023

## Cooperative Societies in Jharkhand

## †2622. SHRI SANJAY SETH:

Will the Minister of COOPERATION (सहकाįरता मंũी) be pleased to state:

(a) the number and details of co-operative societies functioning in co-operative sector, State-wise including Jharkhand;

(b) the grants provided by the Government to Jharkhand for development of cooperative sector during the last two years, the details thereof, district-wise; and

(c) the details of the funds likely to be provided to the co-operative societies working in tribal dominated areas of Jharkhand?

## ANSWER

## THE MINISTER OF COOPERATION सहकाįरता मंũी (SHRI AMIT SHAH)

(a):  As  per  data  entered  by  states/UTs  on  the  National  Cooperative  Database  Portal,  there  are 7,98,044 Cooperative Societies registered in the country with total membership of 29,14,50,241. State-wise data of Cooperative Societies is placed in Annexure-I .

(b)  &  (c):  Ministry  of  cooperation  is  implementing  a  project  for  Computerization  of  63,000 functional PACS, a centrally sponsored project. Under this project, based on the availability of functional PACS in the State of Jharkhand, including tribal dominated areas, Rs. 10.99 Cr. was released  as  Government  of  India  share  for  procurement  of  hardware,  digitization  and  support system. Further, funds to be released only  after utilization  of  earlier released  funds  as  per  the guidelines of the Government of India.

In  addition,  National  Cooperative  Development  Corporation  (NCDC),  a  statutory  corporation under Ministry of Cooperation provides financial assistance to the cooperative sector and also implements various schemes of Government of India for the development of cooperatives. The details of financial assistance in the form of loan and subsidy disbursed by NCDC to the State of Jharkhand, including tribal dominated areas, are as follows:

| (Rs. in crore)      | (Rs. in crore)   | (Rs. in crore)   | (Rs. in crore)   |
|---------------------|------------------|------------------|------------------|
| Financial Year      | Loan             | Subsidy          | Total            |
| 2021-22             | 0.30             | 1.49             | 1.79             |
| 2022-23             | 0.00             | 4.63             | 4.63             |
| 2023-24 (till date) | 0.00             | 0.98             | 0.98             |
| Total               | 0.30             | 7.10             | 7.40             |

The Cooperative Societies in Jharkhand can also avail financial assistance from NCDC under its various schemes as enclosed in Annexure-II .

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## Annexure-I

| No. Name                                     | Total no. Cooperatives (as on 14.12.2023)   | Total no. Members   |
|----------------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------|---------------------|
| 1 JHARKHAND                                  | 11,407                                      | 20,92,444           |
| 2 JAMMU AND KASHMIR                          | 8,615                                       | 8,93,319            |
| 3 HIMACHAL PRADESH                           | 5,116                                       | 18,25,424           |
| 4 PUNJAB                                     | 19,032                                      | 34,16,779           |
| 5 CHANDIGARH                                 | 476                                         | 49,721              |
| 6 UTTARAKHAND                                | 5,289                                       | 16,01,219           |
| 7 HARYANA                                    | 32,356                                      | 54,57,575           |
| 8 DELHI                                      | 5,943                                       | 15,69,276           |
| 9 RAJASTHAN                                  | 36,827                                      | 1,16,43,806         |
| 10 UTTAR PRADESH                             | 43,502                                      | 1,84,76,471         |
| 11 BIHAR                                     | 26,640                                      | 1,59,98,540         |
| 12 SIKKIM                                    | 3,789                                       | 1,16,098            |
| 13 ARUNACHAL PRADESH                         | 1,183                                       | 88,761              |
| 14 NAGALAND                                  | 8,118                                       | 3,10,933            |
| 15 MANIPUR                                   | 10,936                                      | 8,19,392            |
| 16 MIZORAM                                   | 1,229                                       | 49,467              |
| 17 TRIPURA                                   | 3,142                                       | 5,11,878            |
| 18 MEGHALAYA                                 | 2,646                                       | 2,39,740            |
| 19 ASSAM                                     | 11,154                                      | 43,16,953           |
| 20 WEST BENGAL                               | 31,190                                      | 95,89,133           |
| 21 ODISHA                                    | 6,780                                       | 86,55,612           |
| 22 CHHATTISGARH                              | 8,971                                       | 47,50,760           |
| 23 MADHYAPRADESH                             | 51,710                                      | 1,34,23,189         |
| 24 GUJARAT                                   | 81,023                                      | 1,68,31,922         |
| 25 MAHARASHTRA                               | 2,22,056                                    | 5,80,02,812         |
| 26 ANDHRA PRADESH                            | 17,659                                      | 95,92,641           |
| 27 KARNATAKA                                 | 44,526                                      | 3,34,45,961         |
| 28 GOA                                       | 5,439                                       | 15,78,444           |
| 29 LAKSHADWEEP                               | 35                                          | 84,393              |
| 30 KERALA                                    | 6,103                                       | 2,73,25,326         |
| 31 TAMIL NADU                                | 21,587                                      | 2,37,11,414         |
| 32 PUDUCHERRY                                | 457                                         | 4,63,777            |
| 33 ANDAMANANDNICOBAR ISLANDS                 | 2,204                                       | 1,44,470            |
| 34 TELANGANA                                 | 60,107                                      | 1,42,98,820         |
| 35 LADAKH                                    | 267                                         | 27,138              |
| 36 THE DADRA AND NAGAR HAVELI ANDDAMANANDDIU | 530                                         | 46,633              |
| Total                                        | 7,98,044                                    | 29,14,50,241        |

Source:

National Cooperative Database

Note:

97% of data entry completed by states except for Kerala and Manipur.

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## SCHEMES IMPLEMENTED BY NCDC

## I. NCDC Sponsored Schemes

- a) YUVA SAHAKAR - Cooperative Enterprise Support and Innovation Scheme: The scheme  aims  at  encouraging  newly  formed  cooperative  societies  with  new  and/  or innovative ideas. It is linked to a Cooperative Start-up and Innovation Fund created by NCDC.
- b) AYUSHMAN  SAHAKAR: The  Scheme  has  a  comprehensive  approach  to  cover hospitals,  healthcare,  medical  education,  nursing  education,  paramedical  education, health insurance and holistic health systems such as AYUSH.
- c) NANDINI SAHAKAR: The scheme aims to improve socio-economic status of women and supports entrepreneurial dynamism of women through women cooperatives. It will converge  critical  inputs  of  women's  enterprise,  business  plan  formulation,  capacity development, credit and subsidy and/ or interest subvention of other schemes.
- d) DAIRY SAHAKAR: It is a cooperative dairy business focused framework of financial assistance for encouraging cooperatives to achieve higher outcomes in ESG (environmental, social, governance) linked activities. It includes creation of infrastructure by  cooperatives  for  new  projects  and  modernization  and/or  expansion  of  existing projects.
- e) DIGITAL  SAHAKAR: Aligned  with  the  principles  of  Digital  India,  NCDC  has conceived a focused financial assistance framework for Digitally Empowered Cooperatives  for  handholding  and  credit  linkage  by  NCDC,  dovetailed  with  grant, subsidy,  incentives  etc.  from  Government  of  India  /  State  /  UT  /  agencies  with  the objective of cooperatives actively partaking in Digital India.
- f) SWAYAM  SHAKTI  SAHAKAR  YOJNA:  New  scheme  for  providing  NCDC's financial  assistance  to  Agricultural  Credit  Cooperatives  for  providing  loan/advances  to Women Self Help Groups (SHGs) .
- g) DEERGHAVADHI  KRISHAK  PUNJI  SAHAKAR  YOJNA: New Scheme for extending  NCDC's  long  term  financial  assistance  to  Agricultural  Credit  Cooperatives towards their onward lending of long term loans/advances for activities/commodities/services under the purview of NCDC .

## Annexure-II

## II Other Central Sector/Sponsored Schemes implemented by NCDC:

- a) Agri Infrastructure Fund Scheme - DA&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- b) Agricultural  Marketing  Infrastructure  (AMI)  sub  scheme  of  Central  Sector Integrated Scheme on Agriculture Marketing (CSISAM) for Storage and other than Storage Infrastructure
- c) Mission for Integrated Development of Horticulture (MIDH) - DA&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- d) PM  Matsya  Sampada  Yojana  (PMMSY) -  Department  of  Fisheries,  Ministry  of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying
- e) PM Formalisation of Micro Food Processing Enterprises (PMFME )- Ministry of Food Processing Industries
- f) PM 'Formation and Promotion of 10,000 FPOs' scheme -  DA&FW, Ministry of Agriculture and Farmers Welfare
- g) Fisheries  &  Aquaculture  Infrastructure  Development  Fund  (FIDF)  Scheme  Department of Fisheries, Ministry of Fisheries, Animal Husbandry and Dairying.

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