(Outlay: Rs. 593.lakh)

Consumer Co-operatives play an important role in providing consumer goods, medicines, stationary items etc at subsidized rates to the consumers and help them from the exploitation of the private retailers.

An amount of Rs593 lakh is provided for the following activities.

1. Assistance to Kerala State Co-operative Consumer Federation Ltd. on specific projects.
2. Development of Consumer Co-operatives in Urban & Rural Area (View Rules)
3. Share Capital Contribution to Co-operative Canteens. (View Rules)
4. Assistance to Indian Coffee House , for modernization in the form of share, loan and subsidy
5. Assistance for promotion/revitalisation of School/College/University Co-operative Societies. (subsidy/share) (View Rules)
6. Re-organisation/Revitalisation of school stores, University stores, Primary Consumer Co-operative Societies and District Wholesale Co-operative Stores.

           View Rule -1              Rule-2              Rule-3

1. Assistance to the Neethi Stores/Neethi Medical Stores in the form of share, interest free loan and subsidy run by Primary Co-operatives and to Kerala State Co-operative Consumer Federation Ltd. (View Rule)
2. Revitalisation of selected school/college co-operative societies under the supervision of PACS and DCBs in the respected areas
3. Assistance for establishing rice mill at Palakkad by the Kerala State Co-operative Consumer federation/other co-operative institution.