Consumer Co-operatives play an important role in providing consumer goods, medicines, stationary items etc via its various retail outlets (like super markets, neethi stores etc ) at subsidized rates to the consumers and help them from the exploitation of the private retailers. In addition to this they also provide essential food items at very subsidized rates for the extremely poor and downtrodden to shield them from soaring price level. The outlay is provided for the following activities.

1. Assistance to Kerala State Co-operative Consumer Federation Ltd. on specific projects.
2. 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. An amount of `100.00 lakh is provided for the assistance to, Neethi stores and Neethi medical stores.
3. It is envisaged to assist consumerfed in the form of share capital, loan and subsidy to run Neethi stores/Neethi medical stores under the scheme during 2018-19