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Department of Consumer Affairs invites you to join India's online consumer community. Via this community, you can share your consumer experiences, find guidance and raise consumer issues. This initiative is founded by Dept. of Consumer Affairs, Government of India and part of the multi pronged approach to enable the Indian Consumer's voice.

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Chinese made products rampant
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How Safe is Genetically Modified Food?
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The central government had made it mandatory to label all genetically modified foods sold in a packaged form from January 1, 2013. The scientific committee of the Food Safety and Standards Aut...

By MOHIT PANDE

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How Safe are our Toys?
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We have BIS standards relating to safety of toys but unless a safety certification for toys is made mandatory, such standards are futile. In a mystery shopping-testing survey by QCI, 70% of importe...

By MOHIT PANDE

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E Commerce Site Amazon and Flipkart
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Hi what is your experience of recent purchases from E Commerce Site Amazon and Flipkart. Are they delivering as per their promises, as per me, they are not, they are very reluctant to its core cons...

By Naveen Gupta

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District Consumer Forum
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In TOI 27 Oct 20 (page 5 mid way) there is a report announcing the introduction of ON LINE DISTRICT CONSUMER FOUM - www.edaakhil.nic.in. so...

By Dilip Modi

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IPL ads
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I dont know who all is making money but the IPL ads are a disaster. Thumsup/Coke, Pan Masala, Condoms, Gambling and the list continues on and on. Why is the Consumer Affairs Ministry be...

By Sneha Goyal

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Tussle for BIS
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It appears that the new Consumer Affairs Minister is trying to move BIS away from Consumer Ministry into Commerce Ministry. BIS is an inefficient lethargic and slow to act system and com...

By Amit Mishra

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interest on EMI
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govt has announced that bank will refund interest paid on intrest charged during covid period and thosewho have npt availed this moratorium and has paid there EMI regularly will receive cash back f...

By Tarun Lijhara

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Ridiculous move by this consumer affairs dept and ppl paying
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Onion prices are 72 and it is ridiculous that the consumer affairs dept took onions out of the essential commodities act. Arent certain people benefitting from this clearly? LocalCircle...

By Bharat Lal

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Interest waiver on Interest cost puzzling
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The Govt has announced that interest on interest will be credited to the accounts who have paid EMI regularly . If somebody has paid their EMI regularly and on time why would there be a...

By Amit Mishra

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