Ref. : ER/Press/’03/22aug37.sem/dG

Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC), Ahmedabad, has organised an Open Seminar on ‘Consumer Rights, You and CERC’ on Sunday 24 August 2003 at the Ahmedabad Management Association Hall, ATIRA Campus, Ahmedabad, on its Silver Jubilee this week.

The highlights of the Open Seminar include the participation of some of the many consumers who lodged their grievances with CERC during the past 25 years and clinched redressal from the opposite parties despite many hurdles. They will narrate their experiences at Session I on ‘Consumers Who Knocked at CERC’s Doors’. They include Ms Joitiben Patel, of Bhadol Village, who was deprived by the LIC of her insurance claims because her husband had lived two days too long; Mr. Jasbir Singh Jassal, Ahmedabad, whose only son drowned in a school picnic; Ms Manjulaben Parmar, who was denied her dues on grounds that her husband used to take bananas and pears; and some others.

Mr. Wajahat Habibullah, I.A.S., Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs, Ministry of Consumer Affairs and Public Distribution, Government of India, and Mr. Kaushikbhai Patel, Minister for Revenue, Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs, Government of Gujarat, are scheduled to attend the last session on ‘You and the Government’. They are expected to respond to the various concerns of the consumer groups in Gujarat and the rest of the country, expressed from time to time.

The other sessions will deal with ‘CERC and Public Interest Issues’, ‘CERC’s Response to Societal Needs’, ‘Consumer Groups and CERC’ and a discussion thrown open at the end to the members of the public.

Date : 23/08/03

Place :Ahmedabad

Ms Pritee Shah
Editor, INSIGHT - The Consumer Magazine

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