Speaking at an event in Pune after inaugurating the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah emphasized that every sugar mill in Maharashtra should be producing ethanol. He further mentioned that there is substantial funding available through various schemes for cooperative societies to establish distilleries.
Shah urged sugar mills in the state to take advantage of the loan facility and ensure that not a single mill is left without producing ethanol, considering it to be an emerging market with favorable rates.
Several dignitaries including Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Eknath Shinde and Union Minister of State for Ministry of Cooperation, Shri B L Verma were present on the occasion.
In his address, Amit Shah said that the culture of cooperatives spread across the country from Maharashtra only and Cooperative model of Maharashtra is taking the cooperative movement forward in the country. He said that it is absolutely relevant to start the work of complete digitization of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies in Pune, Maharashtra. Shah added that the work of CRCS office, which operates the Multi State Cooperatives, is becoming completely digital today, all the work of cooperative societies like opening new branches, expansion to other states or auditing, will be done online now. This portal has been created including all the activities of Registration, amendment of bylaws, auditing, monitoring of auditing by the Central Registrar, the entire process of election, development of Human Resources, vigilance and training and it is a kind of complete portal in itself.
