Minister for Public Health Engineering and Cooperation, Government of Nagaland, N. Jacob Zhimomi, attended the one-day National Conference held under the chairmanship of Union Minister of Home Affairs and Cooperation, Amit Shah at Bharat Mandapam, New Delhi on 30th June 2025. The conference was attended by the Cooperation Ministers of all States/UTs.
During the national conference, Zhimomi lauded the Cooperation Ministry’s key initiatives like the National Cooperative Database in streamlining the database and categorizing cooperative societies across various parameters. This, he said, has resulted in aiding the State Government’s attempt to cancel and weed-out the non-functioning cooperatives.
The Minister mentioned that unlike other parts of the country the cooperatives in Northeast are managerially and financially weak and rely on Government support, especially on NCDC funding for taking up various business activities. He called for the Government of India to continue funding National Cooperative Development Corporation (NCDC) sponsored projects like Integrated Cooperative Development Project, which he mentioned is very popular among farming community in the Northeast.
Pointing out that one key challenge in computerization of Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) is the inability of PACS officials and secretaries to effectively understand and adopt the digitization process, Minister Zhimomi suggested for deploying Data Entry Operators at each PACS for a minimum period of three years, which will provide sufficient time for the PACS to build internal capacity and eventually employ operators at their own cost. The Minister further raised some of the issues being faced by PACS in expansion of activities under initiatives such as Jan Aushadhi Kendra, Common Service Centres and Pradhan Mantri Kisan Samridhi Kendra.
Later during the day, Minister Zhimomi also planted some saplings at Nagaland Guest House, R. K. Puram New Delhi as part of ‘Ek Ped Maa Ke Naam’ campaign. The Minister was accompanied by Cooperation Secretary, Orenthung Lotha, Joint Resident Commissioner, Nagaland House New Delhi, Sharon Longchari, along with officials and staff of Nagaland House, New Delhi.
(Noune Peseyie, IA)
