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Agri societies to be made multi-purpose

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Posted: Feb 07, 2009 at 0328 hrs IST

Chandigarh Cooperation minister Capt Kanwaljit Singh today said primary agriculture societies in rural areas will be converted into multi-purpose agri-societies, where farm-use facilities will be provided at cheaper rates. He said, the plan is to convert 20 percent of such societies into multi-purpose societies every year.

Addressing the media here this afternoon, the minister said, “The attempt is help rural communities derive maximum benefit in the new economic social order.”

A three-day national conference on ‘Revival of Rural Cooperative Credit Structure’ will also begin on February 9 in Chandigarh. Capt Kanwaljit said the attempt will be to press for four-per cent cooperative loans at the meet being organised by cooperative institutions in collaboration with the National Federation of Cooperative Agricultural Rural Development Banks.

The conference would also provide a major stimulus to the cooperative movement in Punjab which is undergoing a dramatic improvement, he said.

International Cooperative Alliance (ICA) president, Ivano Barberini, and Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal would be the chief guests at the inaugural function to be held at CII, Chandigarh.

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