About Us

Vision

NCCF, as an organization to promote consumer cooperative movement in the country, aspires to facilitate the voluntary formation and democratic functioning of cooperatives, based on self-reliance and mutual aid for overall economic betterment and financial autonomy.

Mission

As an apex organization for the Consumer Cooperatives, NCCF is committed to apply the knowledge and resources acquired over years of its functioning to ensure the following:-

• To satisfactorily meet the requirement of consumers
• To maintain transparency and focus on consumer satisfaction
• To continuously strive to achieve higher standards of performance
• To enable growth of all its member co-operatives through dissemination of best practices and use of technology
• To achieve higher growth, better market penetration and keeping the best interests of consumers in mind
• To achieve higher growth, better market penetration and keeping the best interests of consumers in mind
• To undertake the civil electrical , constuction maintanence ,ARM , infrastructure Work coverd under GFR section 133 of Government/Autonomous/Institutional bodies

• Render technical guidance and assistance to its member institutions in particular, and consumer cooperative societies in general in grading, packaging, standardization, bulk-buying, storing, pricing, account keeping, other business techniques and management methods to improve and increase their operation and management efficiency.
• Create and promote the formation of cadres of employees for the NCCF and member institutions and arrange for their proper training in collaboration with NCUI.
• Hold seminars, conferences, meetings and to undertake publicity, propaganda and similar other activities as may help the development of consumers’ cooperative movement in the country.
• Establish trade connections with manufacturers, their authorized distributors and suppliers/dealers including Government agencies and cooperative organization and to undertake purchase, sale and supply of:-
• Agricultural commodities like food grains, pulses, spices, oil seeds, pharmaceutical items and other consumer goods.
• Manufactured and value added items, drugs, medicines, pharmaceutical items and other Consumer Goods.
• Coal and its by products, chemicals, fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and other industrial goods.
• Undertake supply of the above items in wholesale and retail as well as to Govt. departments/State Agencies /Cooperatives small scale industries and private parties.
• Undertake metal scrap business as also setting up and running of warehouses and cold storages.
• Establish, run or sponsor processing of agricultural commodities like food grains, pulses, spices, tea, oilseeds, etc., and manufacturing units for the production of consumer goods, if necessary, in collaboration with other agencies.
• Import and export of agricultural commodities like, foodgrains, pulses, spices, oilseeds etc; horticultural products, fresh vegetables and fruits, consumer goods and any other item permissible under import and export policy as when necessary.
• Secure from the Government or other sources requisite facilities, assistance and financial aid, both for self and for its member-institutions.
• Acquire land, building, warehouse, vehicles, factories, workshops, machinery and equipment for its activities.
• Coordinate the working of its member institutions with other national level cooperative institutions.
• Collect and disseminate necessary marketing intelligence for the benefit of its member institutions in particular and consumer cooperative societies in general and to undertake research work and study in connection with the consumer’s cooperative movement.
• Do all such things and take such steps as are incidental or conducive to the attainment of any or all the objects, in collaboration with other cooperatives, public sector undertaking and other Agencies, if necessary, within and outside the country.
• Establish testing laboratories for testing of consumer goods in general and making such services available for consumers’ cooperatives in particular.
• To act as agents of Central/State Government or undertaking/corporation or cooperative institutions or any business enterprises for the purpose of sale, storage and distribution of consumer goods approved by the Board of Directors from time to time entrusted by Central/State Governments.
• To subscribe to the share capital of other cooperative institution as well as other public sector enterprises as and when considered necessary for fulfilling the objectives of NCCF.
• To enter into collaboration with International Agency(s) or Body(s) for undertaking international trade of aforesaid commodities/items and setting up of agricultural & consumer industries.
• Arrange supplies of various items required by the Central/State Government, Public Sector Undertaking/Cooperative Organizations and others and to undertake job work including infra-structure development like Housing Projects and any other construction work. Laying of roads, transportation, packaging work etc. entrusted by them.
• To act as C&F Agent of various organizations/companies.
• To organize cooperative education programmes for Members, Directors and employees and to provide funds for this purpose.
• To arrange providing of products related services to the domestic as well as foreign buyers and consumers including setting up of hospitals, hotels and collaborating with the enterprises in joint ventures in the service sector.
• To solicit/procure insurance business as a corporate agent and/or in association of any insurance company/joint venture insurance company in the country.

Vision

The membership of NCCF, as per clause 5 of its Bye-laws, is open to the following:

• Apex level Consumer Cooperative Federations in States
• State level Cooperative organisations having distribution of Consumer goods as one of its objectives in such states as do not have exclusive apex federation of consumer cooperatives
•  Consumer Cooperative Societies and other Cooperative Societies doing retail distribution of consumer goods having turnover of Rs.50 Lakhs
• Government of India
• NCDC
• NCUI without any obligation to pay either admission fee or share money
• NAFED or any other National Cooperative Organization

The authorized share capital of the Federation is Rs.50 crores. The membership, share capital and reserve & other funds as on 31st March, 2021 stood at 148 members, Rs.14.48 crores and Rs.29.22 crores respectively.