National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHFI)

The National Cooperative Housing Federation of India (NCHF) was established in the year, 1969 as an apex organization of cooperative housing sector.

  • Its primary objective is to promote, coordinate and facilitate the operations of member organizations and housing cooperatives to enable them to provide affordable houses to their members.
  • In pursuance of its objectives, NCHF has achieved substantial progress in the growth and development of housing cooperatives. The Statistics-level Apex Cooperative Housing Federations (ACHFs) are members of NCHF.
  • These ACHFs are engaged in channelizing long term housing loans from financial institutions to both the affiliated housing cooperatives as well as individual members for the construction/financing of dwelling units in their respective States.
  • NCHF has been organizing need based training programmes for upgrading the knowledge and managerial skills of the personnel of housing cooperatives so as to enhance efficiency in productivity.
  • It undertakes research studies and compiles data/information; brings out important publications on cooperative housing and related fields; organizes seminars/conferences to discuss various problems faced by housing cooperatives; and provides guidance to housing cooperatives on general insurance of their properties against various perils at reasonable premium.
  • It also publishes a monthly journal called NCHF Bulletin’.