------------------------------------------------- Do GOACAN a favour, circulate this email to your family members, relatives, neighbours and friends. Help other CONSUMERS to be better informed. ------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN to observe Consumer Rights Awareness Fortnight -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN is observing a Consumer Rights Awareness Fortnight from 8th March with the focus "Assert Rights, Pursue Remedies".
The awareness campaign will begin with a program by the women volunteers of Consumer Forums on International Womens Day with the theme "Women Consumers Speak Up". The program will highlight the struggle of women consumers on issues such as Bus Transport, Health & sanitation, Rations & unfair public distribution system and welfare facilities for Senior Citizens. The Right to Know and the Right to SAY NO as well as the rights of women consumers to participate in the decision making process at Panchayat, Municipal and State level will also be highlighted. During the fortnight GOACAN will highlight the need for "Consumer Literacy" in the Towns, Villages and Campuses of the State so that consumers make a determined effort to read their rights and write their complaints. Special focus will be given during the fortnight to the grievance redressal mechanisms of public sector undertakings providing for LPG, Posts & Telecom and the State Govt. service providers of Road transport, ferry services, electricity and water supply. The theme of the World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) 2012 "Our money, our rights: campaigning for real choice in financial services" will be promoted by GOACAN during the awareness fortnight with a focus on "Choice as a fundamental consumer right". Volunteers will organise a 'phone in' with the Departments of Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs, Legal Metrology, Food & Drug Administration, Reserve Bank of India, Goa Police Economic Offences Cell and the Public Works Department. During the fortnight GOACAN will publicize the postal address, official email and telephone numbers of the various Departments at the local & State level, highlight the redressal avenues available such as the Consumer Conciliation Committee, District Consumer Redressal Forums, State Consumer Redressal Commission and Public Grievance Redressal officers at the Taluka & District level. Awareness messages will also be circulated to Schools, HSS and Colleges through the Consumer Welfare Clubs for the benefit of the students and teachers. Consumers are requested to send copies of their suggestions / consumer complaints by post to GOACAN Post Box 187, Margao Goa 403 601 or by email to goa...@gmail.com during this fortnight. ---------------------------------------------------------- GOA CIVIC AND CONSUMER ACTION NETWORK ---------------------------------------------------------- promoting civic and consumer rights in Goa ---------------------------------------------------------- GOACAN Post Box 187 Margao, Goa 403 601 GOACAN Post Box 78 Mapusa, Goa 403 507 mail: goa...@gmail.com Visit: http://goacan.blogspot.com ---------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Protect Goa's natural beauty Support Goa's first Tiger Reserve Sign the petition at: http://www.goanet.org/petition/petition.php ---------------------------------------------------------------------------