On December 5, 2025, Union Home and Cooperation Minister Amit Shah inaugurated Earth Summit 2025 at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat. At the summit, Shah launched over 13 new services and digital products under the 'Sahakar Sarathi' initiative — a joint digital initiative of NABARD (National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development) and the Ministry of Cooperation aimed at enabling digital banking systems for cooperative banks and Primary Agricultural Credit Societies (PACS) across India. Key launches included the Digi Kisan Credit Card (KCC), Campaign Sarathi, Website Sarathi, the Cooperative Governance Index (CGI), and the electronic-Primary Agricultural Credit Society (ePACS) platform. The Digi KCC aims to make the Kisan Credit Card — India's flagship agricultural credit instrument — fully digital from application to disbursement, reducing turnaround times from weeks to hours. The Cooperative Governance Index (CGI) will rank cooperative institutions on transparency, financial health, and democratic functioning — introducing accountability metrics into a sector that has historically suffered from political interference and poor governance. The ePACS platform aims to computerise over 63,000 PACS across India, many of which still operate on manual, paper-based ledgers. The Earth Summit brought together state cooperative ministers, NABARD officials, cooperative banks, agri-tech companies, and rural finance experts. Gujarat Chief Minister Bhupendra Patel was also present. The summit underscored the central government's 'Sahakar se Samriddhi' (Prosperity through Cooperation) vision — institutionalised through the creation of a dedicated Ministry of Cooperation in 2021 under Amit Shah.