On August 6, 2023, Union Minister Amit Shah, Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) and Ministry of Cooperation, launched a digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune, Maharashtra.
This launch is on the lines with Prime Minister(PM) Narendra Modi’s vision of “Sahkar se Samriddhi”, strengthening cooperative movement in India, deepening its reach to the grassroots and to enhance the performance, productivity and profitability of cooperative societies.
- The CRCS office, under the Ministry of Cooperation, is responsible for administering the Multi-State Co-operative Societies (MSCS) Act 2002. This portal will ease the functioning of over 1550 MSCS in India and promote a digital ecosystem for new registrations.
Objectives of Portal:
i.Promote ease of doing business in the cooperative sector and streamline processes
ii.Implementing completely paperless applications
iii.Enabling digital communication
iv.Improving analytics and management information system
Key Points:
i.This portal will aid in the registration of new MSCS, simplifying their operations and creating a more efficient and transparent digital ecosystem.
ii.It will also incorporate recent amendments to the MSCS Act, 2002, ensuring automatic compliance with the updated rules.
iii.Using the portal, applications and service requests will be processed quickly through an electronic workflow.
It will have security features like OTP-based user registration and validation checks to ensure compliance with the MSCS Act and Rules.
- Hearings will be conducted through video conferencing, and registration certificates will be issued electronically.
iv.The portal will have various modules for different tasks like registration, amendment of bye-laws, filing annual returns, handling appeals, conducting audits, inspections, inquiries, arbitrations, winding up, liquidation, ombudsman services, and elections.”
Note: For the development of this portal, a ‘Hackathon’ competition was organized to invite youth participation and ideas, while feedback was gathered from National and MSCS.
Participants:
It was attended by Chief Minister(CM) of Maharashtra, Eknath Shinde and Union Minister of State (MoS) B L Verma, Ministry of Cooperation, among others.
Recent Related News:
i.On 8th June 2023, the Government of India has taken 5 important decisions revolving around Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS), a basic unit and the smallest cooperative credit institution in India that works on the grassroots level (gram panchayat and village level).
ii.The Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA) has prepared the “Model Prisons Act 2023” which will replace “The Prisons Act, of 1894”, a 130-year-old British-era law, to overhaul the prison administration that will focus on the reformation and rehabilitation of inmates.
About Ministry of Cooperation:
Union Minister– Amit Shah (Constituency- Gandhi Nagar, Gujarat)
Minister of State– B L Verma (Rajya Sabha- Uttar Pradesh)
