The Student Consumer Club facilitates the need for creating consumer awareness among students.  The club activities will include awareness programs about Consumer Responsibilities & Rights, Food Safety (Food Adulteration, Food Nutrition, Food Preservatives, and Food Contamination), Hospitals and Patients Rights, Transport, Insurance, Consumer Durables, Digital Technologies and Consumer Protection Act.

AGENDA:

The Student Consumer Club :

• Empowers students with knowledge and awareness in consumer related issues
• Prepares the student to face the world with confidence backed by knowledge
• Create awareness about consumer laws and equip the students with life skills enabling them to lead better lives
• Enables them to become aware of their duties as a consumer making them better citizens
• The student consumer club aims at in creating educated and informed consumers of the future.

VISION:

• To enable students understand fundamental rights of citizen and make them realize and learn the fundamental duties of a good citizen.
• To inject knowledge and skills relating to consumer rights among our college students and to impart knowledge on product standards, product quality and about markets.
• To make them aware of laws enacted for protection/welfare of consumers and enforcement authorities concerned.
• To build a base of enlightened citizen consumer as the foundation of future India.
• Bring awareness and realization about duties and responsibilities as Citizen of India.

OBJECTIVES OF CITIZEN CONSUMER CLUB:

Our vision of markets in India, where consumers are careful and vigilant while manufacturers are responsible and ethical, guides us. The objectives of our mission would be:

• Bring awareness and realization about duties and responsibilities as Citizens of India.
• Spread awareness about the rights and responsibilities of Citizens and Consumers as provided in the Constitution of India, Consumer Protection Act, 2013 and other Indian Laws.
• To enable children, students and self help groups to work together as a team with local communities and develop in to caring, responsible and honest citizens.
• Mobilize and instill right-consciousness, confidence to question violations of citizen and consumer rights and fight for justice.
• Impart knowledge about real life situations and to enable to development of skills to handle citizen and consumer issues.
• Instill concern for environment around us as citizens and consumers and sustainable consumption habits.

DUTIES OF A MEMBER:

• To learn and follow the traits of a responsible citizen and aware consumer.
• To disseminate information gained through the club among fellow students, parents, and other people in the community.
• To organize and actively participate citizen building and consumer protection programmes being organized by the club as well as in their locality, mobilizing general public.
• To observe all important international and national days especially Republic Day (26th January), National Consumer Day (24th December) and World Consumer Rights Day (15th March).
•  To treat all fellow citizens with care, concern and responsibility.

CONSUMER RIGHTS VIOLATION

Consumers in India are largely ignorant of rules, laws and codes. They are also unaware of their rights. A vast majority are also illiterates in many backward districts and states. Hence, dishonest producers and retailers cheat such unsuspecting and ignorant people without difficulty. Hence, consumer welfare is in a state far from desirable.