CHENNAI: Minister for Cooperation Sellur K Raju announced in the Assembly on on Monday that 100 cooperative pharmacies would be started in taluk headquarters during the current financial year.Replying to the discussion on the demands for grants for the Department of Cooperation, the Minister said that during the current financial year, pledge loans to the tune of `300 crore would be extended to farmers for agricultural purposes through primary agricultural cooperative societies and primary cooperative agricultural and rural development banks.The ceiling for pledge loans to farmers would be increased from `2 lakh to `3 lakh.For small irrigation schemes, `50 crore would be extended as loans and `15 crore would be given as loans to the differently-abled through district cooperative societies, Raju said.Online money transfers and internet banking would be introduced in the Tamil Nadu State Central Cooperative Society, the Minister for Cooperation said.
Comments
0 comment