A report in Hindu has far reaching implications on the future of Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies if the experiment is repeated at a larger scale. It says that e-governance project is being implemented through PACS in some of the districts of Tamil Nadu.
Readers would recall that NCUI President Dr Chandra Pal Singh Yadav has in his speech recently before the Union Agricultural Minister Radha Mohan Singh exhorted on adoption of PACS as the implementing agency for the government projects.
The District Magistrate of Tiruchirappalli Jayashree Muralidharan has raised the status of eight PACS as online service centers for various needs of residents such as community, income, nativity, first-generation graduate, and widow certificates.
She inaugurated the project at the Vazhavanthankottai Primary Agricultural Cooperative Society and asserted that the online centres would function at the Primary Agricultural Cooperative Societies at Vengur, Natarajapuram, Tiruverumbur, Koothaipar, Thuvakudi, Asoor, Navalpattu and Vazhavanthankottai
Now the residents of the Tiruverumbur taluk need not visit government offices to get essential certificates from the Revenue Department with the introduction of e-governance project .
Applications, along with supporting documents, can be submitted at the centres on payment of Rs. 50. The certificates would be issued at the centres were the applications were submitted. Applications can be submitted on all working days, with Saturday being half working days.
The e-governance project has already been introduced in Srirangam and Tiruchi West Taluk in the district.