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PACS Reforms and Computerisation
Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) are the village-level base of India's cooperative credit system, and the Ministry of Cooperation is turning them into computerised, multipurpose businesses. They are in the news as the shared software spreads, with 54,707 declared e-PACS by July 2026, and as PACS take up new trades from medicine counters to fertiliser kendras.
Last updated 24 October 20265 min read
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PACS computerisation, model bye-laws, PACS-run Jan Aushadhi counters and the cooperative sector's digital rails now have their own card.
- PACS
- Primary Agricultural Credit Societies
- PACS computerisation
- e-PACS
- National Cooperative Database
- Jan Aushadhi Kendra
- Ministry of Cooperation
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