Affidavit filed by Chhattisgarh East West Railway Limited in the matter of Sudiep Shrivastava Vs Union of India & Others dated 15/04/2025. The appeal was disposed of by the NGT, April 29, 2019. However, the order was challenged before the Supreme Court (SC). The SC, November 26, 2024 disposed of …
In Nepal, lost in the chaos of political upheavals, a silent revolution is afoot. In remote villages of this mountainous and energy-starved country people are demanding their right to electricity. They say electricity is a national good; everyone must have a right to it. This is not to say Nepal …
Across Nepal, close to 420 electricity user groups, cooperatives and committees are working to extend the grid into villages. They are taking charge of electricity distribution, maintenance and ‘customer service’. Together they have electrified 176,000 rural households according to nea; another 90,000 are in the pipeline. These numbers are significant …
A new U.S. government study on Tuesday adds to a growing list of experts concluding that climate legislation moving through Congress would have only a modest impact on consumers, adding around $100 to household costs in 2020. Under the climate legislation passed by the House of Representatives in June, electricity, …
Scot case was not happy. Vice president of the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, Case last year sent his researchers into a big-box retail store to evaluate the green advertising claims of some of the products on its shelves. The results were startling: of the 1,018 products TerraChoice surveyed, all but …
The Consumers International (CI) battle against marketing of unhealthy food to children has gathered support from domestic groups as well. The London-based CI is an independent consumer network with over 220 member organisations in 115 countries. Ahmedabad's Consumer Education and Research Centre (CERC) and Chennai's Consumers Association of India have …
In the largest recall of its kind in US history, four toy jewellery importers recently announced a voluntary withdrawal of 150 million pieces of toy jewellery from the country's market. The decision was taken after the US Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) found many of these items containing dangerous levels …
It is an issue that affects millions of consumers in the US . At stake are the interests of the pharmaceutical companies, insurance companies and the government. For years, the pharmaceutical industry was profiting from a friendly government and non-powerful consumer organisations. Not anymore. Now, protests are beginning to be …
Products of some of the major tea companies in India are reported to have high lead content, according to a press release from the Ahmedabad-based Consumer Education and Research Society (CERS). To obtain the Ecomark, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has set the maximum limit of 6.5 parts per …
in the wake of a large number of complaints over the quality of blood supplied by the government and private blood banks for transfusion, a ban will be issued on professional blood donation from January 1 next year. The proposed ban is a follow up to a Supreme Court direction …
a number of international organisations are working towards beefing up food security by creating awareness among consumers. "All future agricultural research, policies and trade opportunities must be anchored to the concepts of availability of quality and nutritious food at an affordable price to all," says a statement issued by Consumers …
BHAMY V SHENOY in india , consumer-citizens are treated not as kings or masters but as servants, if not slaves, by employees in public utilities and government offices. The Consumer Protection Act, copra, which was established in 1986, has not succeeded in solving the endless list of problems faced by …
Japanese consumers are a wasteful lot. Trees felled in Asian rainforests are dumped as old furniture after a few years of use by the Japanese. A study conducted by the Sarawak Conservation Campaign (scc), an ngo, links the wasteful consumption patterns in Japan with the depletion of South Asia's tropical …
DO ECO-MARKS and green logos endorsed on products really help the consumer to make an environment-friendly choice? May be not. A recent survey by the National Consumer Council in UK has found that green claims on products had the consumers baffled. Sample a few: Dishwasher liquid: "Easy on the environment"- …
THE erstwhile -cold war between, the us and Russia seems to have given way to a war over chickens! If a threatened Russian poultry ban takes effect, yankee chickens may no longer be welcome in Russia. Apparently, Russians are holding out the ban threat -as a measure to protect Russian …
The Consumer's Association of Penang (CAP) in Malaysia has launched a blitzkrieg to ban Barbie. The doll is being blamed for promoting inappropriate stereotypes among children. Janet Pillai, a lecturer in children's theatre at the Universities Sains, Malaysia, says, "The notion of beauty promoted through Barbic - hour- glass figure, …
Modern civilization appears to have it all wrong. The yardstick used to measure the progress of a town, city or village is the status of its physical development. More shops, busier bazaars and crowded roads are taken to be signs of prosperity. There's little or no laying out of well-planned …
Established in 1984, Consumer Unity & Trust Society (CUTS) is a non-profit, non-governmental organisation working on public interest issues. CUTS is one of the very few consumer organisations in the country working from grassroots to international level. :
