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Nearly 14 crore of farmers in the country are the members of the cooperative system in the country. Nearly 95% of KCC loans disbursing through PACS are provided to the small and marginal farmers of the country. This is about 41% of the loan provided by PACS through KCC in the country. To increase the efficiency and productivity of the PACS the cabinet committee of the union government has approved the idea of digitization of the PACS of the country. There are about 65000 PACS are working in the country. Now days the governments are focusing on multipurpose PACS in the country so that they can provide some other facilities to its members along with the financial facilities they are providing, facilities like storage space, rentable agricultural tools and implements etc. In the Eastern and North-Eastern Co-operative Dairy Conclave 2022 the Union Home minister promised for the establishment of the PACS in every Panchayat of the country.