Connected Consumers

The Bank's intention to penalize the savings bank account holders who could not maintain minimum cash balance in their accounts is very unfortunate and atrocious. Many pensioners like me are unabl...

I appreciate Anshu's presence of mind and jago/jagao approach of showing the consumer circle to hotel manager and not paying service charge but an advisory from the govt will help in this matter. <...

There was a time when Reserve Bank of India (RBI) had strictly instructed the banks to ensure that under NO circumstances their ATMs should be dry. It seems after the de-monitisation days, ban...

“Direct Selling” means marketing, distribution and sale of goods or providing of services as a part of network of Direct Selling other than under a pyramid scheme. “Pyr...

School fee is being increased in some private schools anywhere between 15-40%. There is no owner of this cause. DMs have no power. Cbse only issues guidelines. Can this somehow be regulated. Can th...

The common economic logic says, ‘other things remaining the same if the sales are not happening and inventories are piling up, the prices should fall’. Other things such as income, tast...

Thanks Consumer Affairs department for enabling this useful platform. For those who are unsure about how this can be of great help. I and my husband were at a restaurant last weekend (an old and fa...

About a week back I purchased a Reliance JIO router and SIM card. When I installed it, it gave download speed in the range of 0.5 to 5 Mbps. By evening there was hardly any signal. My complains so...

Printing of MRP is a big racket. Most of the retailers sell packaged items at MRP while the same product is available in many malls/stores at a discount of 10-20%. The producers/manufacturers nee...

There should be ban on showing adult related ads on popular channels on television during day time. It is for the betterment of our kids and our society. It gets too uncomfortable to watch such ads...