(Outlay: Rs. 2810 lakh)

Outlay is provided for the following schemes:

Assistance to Consumer Federation, Wholesale Stores and Primary Co-operatives engaged in consumer activities.

(a) Assistance to PACs and Kerala State Co-operative Consumer Federation for running “Neethi Stores” and “Neethi Medical Stores”. (View Rules)

(b) Assistance to Co-operatives for establishing processing units. (View Rules)

(c) Equipment Finance.

(d) Margin money assistance to State level, District level and Regional level   Co-operatives. (View Rules)

(e) Assistance for Revitalization of weak processing units in Co-operative Sector.

(f)  Assistance to PACs for the purchase of computers.

(g) Assistance to S.C./S.T. Co-operatives and Federation.

(h)  Assistance to service sector such as Co-operative Hospitals, Women Co-operatives, Literary Co-operatives, etc. (View rules)

(i)  Assistance to labour contract co-operatives for the purchase of machines, equipment’s, tools for the construction for purchase of vehicle for loading and unloading and allied activities. (View Rules)

(j) Assistance for Tourism, Hospitality, Transport, Hospital, health care, Education, Electricity (New/ Non Conventional) and Rural Housing Programmes of Co-operatives as per the new scheme of NCDC.

(View Rules)

(k) Assistance to co-operatives including agricultural credit co-operatives for the development of infrastructural facilities for agricultural credit activities.

(View Rule)

(l)   Assistance to new NCDC schemes implementing during 2017-18.

(m) Since NCDC is a high cost loan, prioritization is required. Support for       education cooperatives are not included in the provision.