Venue-Gram
Panchayat Bhavan
Village Devripur Block Bakshi ka Talab
Distt. Lucknow
Motive- Educating Rural Consumers the Consumer Protection act and aware
them to purchase BIS Certified Products.
Collaborators-
CONSUMER GUILD WITH THE PRECIOUS
SUPPORT OF BIS LUCKNOW.
A Rural Consumers Awareness meet has been held at above venue by Consumer Guild and active collaboration
with Bureau Of Indian
Standards Lucknow .. The meeting comes in the wake of findings that
CPA is not being followed strictly especially in rural area like Block
Bakshi ka talab and mostly
consumer have very little bit idea of consumer movement.
First Abhishek Srivastava Chief
Functionary of Consumer Guild U.P gave inaugurate speech he describe
whole CPA in easy language to Rural Consumers and emphasis and appeal to
them kindly take Cash Memo every purchase, In addition he said, it is a
violation of basic consumer rights – the right to safe product, the right
to information, the right to compensation when injured and the right to healthy
he also pointed out lack of awareness especially in rural Consumers about
Consumer Movement.
After inaugurate speech Dr. Chandra
Mohan Director BIS Lucknow started his speech by describing BIS work
and origin in details , then he step by step described consumer friendly
schemes running by BIS to ensure consumers safety and quality of
products. He also pointed if any consumers found that any seller or
product is not following BIS Rules especially if that product certified
by BIS should complain to BIS branch office any time for further action
from BIS side.
He also described Gold and silver jeweler Hallmarking scheme to the audience.
DORI LAL GRAM PRADHAN VILLAGE DEVRIPUR BLOCK
BAKSHI KA TALAB-
He also pointed out that mostly rural consumers don't have any idea about
consumer movement he also thanks organizers for arranging such a
wonderful programme in their village .
RURAL CONSUMERS RESPONSE-
Most consumers
said that vendors don't give them any cash memo but lack of option they have
to buy products from them. Most consumers don't have any idea imitative
taken by Ministry Of Consumer Affairs Like National Consumer Helpline and
Core Centre and even they do not aware of consumer Forum procedures and
they don't
have any faith for getting redressal of their complain Many rural
consumers are illiterate that is also is a big challenge
for success of consumer Movement..
Positives – Mostly Rural consumers watch JAGO GRAHAK JAGO ads at their television , they know ISI mark
but they don't know how to identify original ISI mark .Many consumers
also registered their complain at this meeting among
them complaint like duplicate Cement , non certified seeds, were the main
concerning areas .
Conclusion- In that meeting several Villagers , ITI BKT Students
,Teachers , primary students , officials of Agriculture
Dep't., BIS officials , Consumer organization representatives were present
, Meeting was also addressed by Anupam Srivastava Vice President Consumer Guild , Deepu Tiwari Local Participant , Shri B.K Srivastava
official from Agriculture Deptt.
Total Participants- 150.
