DNCRP increases market monitoring drives from today
Sunday, 1 January 2012
Talha Bin Habib
The national agency for consumers' rights protection will increase the number of market monitoring drives from today (Sunday) against unscrupulous traders across the country, officials said.
"We conducted 30 to 40 market monitoring drives every month against the unscrupulous traders in 2011. We will increase the number up to 50 every month in 2012 at different divisional and districts towns and important markets," Director General of the Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) Md Abul Hossain Mian told the FE Saturday.
Except weekend, the market watchdog body has started conducting market drive since April, 2010, and realised fines from unscrupulous traders.
"We have conducted about three thousand drives so far. We realised Tk 35 million till December 31, 2011 from traders for violation of consumers' rights throughout the county except three hill districts," he mentioned.
He said the DNCRP is maintaining market monitoring drive with 16 officers (14 deputy secretaries and 2 senior assistant secretaries) and law enforcement agencies against unscrupulous traders.
He said that his organisaion had been maintaining regular market monitoring with the present number of manpower to stem the unscrupulous traders from doing manifold profits through food adulteration and cheating the consumers by weight manipulation of the products.
He said to accelerate the anti- adulteration drives, the authorities of DNCRP have already set up offices at five divisional cities and most district towns to expand the DNCRP's activities across the country. "We have started pasting about 0.1 million posters at government offices at divisional and districts towns to make people aware so that unscrupulous traders could not deprive them," Mr Hossain mentioned.
The national agency for consumers' rights protection will increase the number of market monitoring drives from today (Sunday) against unscrupulous traders across the country, officials said.
"We conducted 30 to 40 market monitoring drives every month against the unscrupulous traders in 2011. We will increase the number up to 50 every month in 2012 at different divisional and districts towns and important markets," Director General of the Directorate of National Consumers Rights Protection (DNCRP) Md Abul Hossain Mian told the FE Saturday.
Except weekend, the market watchdog body has started conducting market drive since April, 2010, and realised fines from unscrupulous traders.
"We have conducted about three thousand drives so far. We realised Tk 35 million till December 31, 2011 from traders for violation of consumers' rights throughout the county except three hill districts," he mentioned.
He said the DNCRP is maintaining market monitoring drive with 16 officers (14 deputy secretaries and 2 senior assistant secretaries) and law enforcement agencies against unscrupulous traders.
He said that his organisaion had been maintaining regular market monitoring with the present number of manpower to stem the unscrupulous traders from doing manifold profits through food adulteration and cheating the consumers by weight manipulation of the products.
He said to accelerate the anti- adulteration drives, the authorities of DNCRP have already set up offices at five divisional cities and most district towns to expand the DNCRP's activities across the country. "We have started pasting about 0.1 million posters at government offices at divisional and districts towns to make people aware so that unscrupulous traders could not deprive them," Mr Hossain mentioned.