The Ministry of Cooperation has introduced Model Bye laws aimed at revitalizing Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS).
The Model Byelaws refer to a set of guidelines or regulations to govern the functioning and operations of PACS at the grassroots level.
By adopting Model Byelaws, PACS would be able to serve as multi-service centers, improve their operational efficiency, transparency and accountability and provide agricultural credit and various non-credit services, etc. in rural areas.
PACS are village level cooperative credit societies that serve as the last link in a three-tier cooperative credit structure.
There were 1.02 lakh PACS in the country.
Maharashtra has 20,897 PACS of which 11,326 are in losses.