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Welcome to Watchful Consumers

Every one of us knows that a Consumer is a person who buys products or services for his or her own personal use. Hence, every human-being of this world is a consumer. The consumers are playing a vital role in the economic system of a nation. But, the consumers in India are mostly illiterate and ignorant. They do not understand their legal rights. They are widely dispersed and are not united. Hence, they have to remain at the mercy of businessmen; resultantly they are exploited by some of the manufacturers, traders and service providers.
On the other hand, producers and traders are organized and powerful. In order to maximize profits, many businessmen exploit consumers by supplying poor quality goods at higher prices. They adopt unfair trade practices such as adulteration, black-marketing, etc. As a result consumers do not get value for their money. Big business houses use their power for private gain and to the detriment of consumers. Some businessmen give misleading information about quality, safety and utility of products. Consumers are misled by false advertisement and do not know the real quality of advertised goods. Hence, they are exposed to physical, environmental and other hazards due to adulteration and contamination in the food products.
There is increasing supply of duplicate products in the market and it is very difficult for an ordinary consumer to distinguish between a genuine product and its imitation. He pays the price for the original but gets a substandard product. So, it is necessary to protect consumers from such exploitation. So a system is required to protect them from unscrupulous businessmen. A mechanism is needed to prevent misleading advertisements. Apart from the above, fraudulent, unethical and monopolistic trade practices, on the part of businessmen, are leading to exploitation of consumers should be curbed. Consumers often get defective, inferior and substandard goods and poor service. They need to be protected from spurious, duplicate and adulterated products, pollution of air, water and noise, and misleading advertising.
‘Watchful Consumers’ magazine is committed to enhancing consumer welfare and empowering consumers to protect themselves. Consumers include consumers of goods and services, purchasers, mortgagors and lessees of immovable property and consumers of the financial market. It is to hold the most powerful governmental and corporate factions accountable, and to do so, we will report on a wide and varied range of issues. ‘Watchful Consumers’ highlights the issues of those thousands of people who fell ill in India every year because of adulteration, contamination in the food items, vegetables, fruits, potable water and pollution in the air. It’s concern is also to empower the women folks because they are better placed to face the challenges of consumerism. Women and children are one of the major segments of the consumers, so without educating them in this area our social and economic growth is virtually impossible in society.

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