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Legal Awareness Camp
09 Feb 2019
LEGAL AID COMMITTEE of FACULTY OF JURIDICAL SCIENCES, RAMA UNIVERSITY, KANPUR organized a legal awareness camp on “JAGO GRAHAK JAGO”, 23 Feb. 2019 at Rama University.
WHAT ARE THE OBJECTIVES BEHIND 'JAGO GRAHAK JAGO' CAMP
Consumer awareness is one of the significant social, economic and political concern in most of the developing nations. Thousands of people die every day due to adulterated food and consuming duplicate medicines.
OBJECTIVES OF CONSUMER PROTECTION ACT, 1986
This camp aims to create awareness amongst the consumers and has become very popular in every Indian household. The objectives of this campaign are listed below:
- To protect the consumer against the promotion and selling of products and services which are dangerous to life and property of individuals.
- Every consumer must be properly informed and educated on the price, standard, purity, potency, quantity and quality of the products so that the consumers are protected against the unfair and unethical trade practices.
- Every consumer should have right to be assured. Where ever there is possibility of access to different products at competitive rates, the consumer should be given access to.
- Every consumer must have right to be heard at different forums.
- The consumer should have his right to look for justice and redress against any unethical or unfair trade practice which aims to exploit the consumer.
- Every consumer should be educated about the campaign Jago Grahak Jago.
Venue: Rama University, Mandhana Kanpur (Utter Pradesh)
