‘Consumer welfare a neglected area’
11 years, 10 months ago

‘Consumer welfare a neglected area’

The Hindu  

The concept of consumer protection by means of enacting laws through organisations designed to ensure the rights of consumers as well as fair trade competition and the free flow of truthful information in the marketplace is conspicuously missing in Krishna district. Pointing to the mushrooming push carts loaded with junk food along the main roads, he said the fact that most of these vendors park their push carts along open drains where the food stuff is exposed to unhygienic surroundings.“Consumer welfare has always been a neglected area. The District Supply Officer, who is also the nodal officer for consumer protection, is evidently disinterested in consumer protection,” said Mr. Murthy. Citing a series of issues where the hapless consumer has been at the receiving end of the ‘official apathy’, he said supply of contaminated water by the Vijayawada Municipal Corporation was a perennial problem. The other ‘menaces’ listed out by him that need immediate attention include unregistered chit business in every nook and cranny of the city, the real estate business where many a time, the unsuspecting consumer walks into the trap laid by the developer or builder, unscrupulous jewellery merchants who do not issue proper bills and resort to other unfair means to make profits, hospital managements ‘looting’ people and insurance firms by producing inflated figures to the insurance companies.

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