Cooperative Week celebrations to conclude on Saturday Handheld billing machines to all ration shops from December 1 Functioning of shops to be monitored from control room He told reporters here that of the targeted disbursal of Rs. 25 crore, Rs. 14.57 crore was disbursed till October. The target will be achieved before the end of March 2011. Cooperative societies were asked to achieve the target to disburse loans to farmers. An amount of Rs. 1.36 crore was disbursed as medium term loan to purchase various equipment for agriculture activities. As directed by the government, 286 Joint Liability Groups were established. A total of Rs. 3.76 crore was distributed as loans to these groups apart from Rs. 3.92 crore as crop loans. The Office of the Joint Registrar for Krishnagiri district is functioning from June 7. As many as 120 Primary Agricultural Cooperative Credit Societies, 20 branches of the Dharmapuri District Central Cooperative Banks, three Primary Agriculture and Rural Development Banks, 36 Employees Credit Societies, four Agriculture Producers Cooperative Marketing Societies, two Urban Cooperative Banks, one Irrigation Cooperative Society, three Industrial Cooperative Societies, three Employees Cooperative Societies and 76 Students Cooperative Societies are functioning under the control of Krishnagiri district office. The Food Minister, E.V. Velu, will participate at the valedictory function of the Cooperative Week to be held on November 20. This is the first Cooperative Week function after the district Joint Registrar office was bifurcated from Dharmapuri district in June this year, Mr. Krishnamoorthy adds. Handheld billing machines will be provided to all the ration shops in the district from December 1. After week training to the salesmen, it will be implemented from December 1.It will ensure transparency in Public Distribution System. It will completely eliminate malpractices, as the machines will work from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and will be connected to the state control room at Chennai and at the four regional control rooms to be set up in the district. The food grains inventory will be monitored by the control room, Mr. Krishnamoorthy said.