'Sitting At Right Place After...': Amit Shah To Ajit Pawar At Launch Of Digital Portal Of Central Registrar Of Cooperative Societies

Shah made the comment as he launched the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune on Sunday. 

Union Home Minister Amit Shah launches digital portal of Central Registrar Of Cooperative Societies

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Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Sunday launched the digital portal of the Central Registrar of Cooperative Societies (CRCS) office in Pune. He told Maharashtra Deputy Chief Minister Ajit Pawar, also on stage, "Ajit Dada (Pawar) has come for the first time after becoming the Deputy CM and I am sharing the stage with him, I want to tell him that after a long time, you are sitting at the right place. This was the right place but you took too long to come."

The Union Home Minister arrived in Pune on Saturday where he was received by Maharashtra Chief Minister Eknath Shinde, Deputy CM Ajit Pawar and Minister Chandrakant Patil at the airport. 

The digital portal of the CRCS aims to boost the  cooperative movement in India and aligns with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s vision of ‘Sahkar se Samridhi’. Under the initiative, the office of the Central Registrar will introduce more computer-based operations in order to promote ease of doing business in the cooperative sector.

the primary objectives of the digital portal include implementing completely paperless applications, ensuring automatic compliance with Multi-State Co-operative Societies Act (MSCS Act) and rules through software, promoting the ease of doing business, ensuring digital communication, enabling transparent processing, and boosting analytics and management information systems, stated a press release by the Ministry of Cooperation. 

The online portal will encompass different modules that include registration, amendment of by-laws, annual return filing, appeal, audit, inspection, inquiry, arbitration, winding up, liquidation, ombudsman, and election, it added. 

“The new portal will also have provisions for OTP based user registration, validation checks for compliance with the MSCS Act and Rules, hearing through video conference, issue of registration certificate and electronic communication. This project of computerization will prove helpful in registration of new MSCS and will ease their functioning,” the release further said.

To involve the youth and invite more ideas, a 'Hackathon' was also organised and the Ministry has also invited suggestions and feedback from all National Cooperative Societies and Multi-State Cooperative Societies.