Grahakjago (S.K.Virmani)©

A couple of posts have recently brought on the blog recently about the deceptive trade practices of Electricity DISCOMs in Haryana. The  post was uploaded in this blog by the author for wilful gross violations of the Regulations of Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission mandated as per provisions laid in the Electricity Act. These Regulations including approved tariff structures are binding onto the DISCOMs.  The issues of gross violations as identified in the post were proposed to be intimated to the Regulator i.e Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission (HERC) for appropriate intervention. The violations have been brought to the perusal of HERC for taking appropriate action through an email dtd. 22nd July 2020 and 30th July 2020. The content of the communications with Haryana Electricity Regulatory Commission was also published in the blog on 31st July 2020, the link of the post is as below: http://skvirmani-jagograhak.blogspot.com/2020/07/issues-of-gross-violations-of-h...

Subsequent to the publishing of two articles in this blog on "Misappropriation of Consumers money- A scam by Flipkart (?) , the attention of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Govt of India has also been drawn on the subject for appropriate action through an email on 13/07/2020. A copy of the same is uploaded in this blog. The consumers whosoever have been facing issues with Flipkart may also write directly to the Department of Consumers Affairs on their email ids.  M/s Flipkart India Pvt Ltd is in the business of online selling of products through their website www.flipkart.com The products offered range from domestic items like garments, daily use items, groceries,  furniture items, electronic and electrical products, parts and accessories, and a lot many other categories of items, etc. etc. India like any other country in the world has been facing pandemic due to Corona Virus. Govt. of India had to declare lockdown across the country. The  essential services to the...

Flipkart Internet Private Ltd. started its operation in India as e-commerce market place in October, 2007 and as per information available on its website has 80 million products across 80+ categories. It further states having 100 million registered users, 8 million shipments per month, 100 thousands sellers and 21 state-of-the-art warehouses. Despite such an infrastructure as claimed by the company, the consumer complaints specially during Corona Pandemic have been suggesting that the company has been adapting to unethical business practices. Some of the facts as revealed in the analysis are shocking indicating misappropriation of consumer's money and the question arises as whether it is a financial scam? One can find several complaints/feedback/ adverse comments about unethical business practices of M/s. Flipkart in social media like Twitter, Facebook etc. Initially three cases were picked up for study and one thing has been commonly observed in all the three cases is that Fli...

Petition to Department of Consumer Affairs for intervening in stopping unfair business by major retailers like Lifestyle, Shoppers Stop, Myntra, Jabong, Pantaloons, Home Saaz etc.  Dear Readers, I have been bringing to the notice of Govt. of India about the unfair business being carried out by major retailers like Lifestyle, Shoppers Stop, Myntra, Jabong, Pantaloons, Home Saaz etc. Several articles have been written on this blog since 2014, The copy of the Posts were being mailed to the respective retailers.However, the practice still continues as on date. The unfair business practices of these retailers are being derived out of charging taxes on the discounted sale price. The discounted sale price after factoring with the discount rate become revised MRP and hence charging of any tax on the MRP is unfair trade practices. Hon'able State Commission and Hon'able National Commission have already termed charging of tax on such discounted prices as unfair business practice...

Goods and Service Tax (GST) has been implemented in India w.e.f 1st July 2017 with much fanfare. One of the key point as highlighted by Prime Minister of India is that it will result into reduction in the prices to the consumers. With the newspaper reports the dream was becoming true when the automobile industries came up with the substantial reduction in the prices of high end luxury car. Our Prime Minister in his talk "mann ki baat" referred to a letter from a poor person stating that due to implementation of GST in the country has resulted cost reduction to make it affordable to ordinary person. Yes it is true that the car prices of high end models have come down due to GST. Is it really true for daily needs of ordinary citizens. One of the daily need is the consumption of food items. An advertisement of Jago Grahak Jago as appeared in the Times of India on 5th August 2017. A scanned copy of the advertisement titled "GST to make common man's plate afford...