Consumer club report

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CONSUMER CLUB
REPORT
GOVERNMENT DEGREE COLLEGE FOR WOMEN
Sangareddy, Medak Dist.-502001
Telangana State

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A REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES
OF CONSUMER CLUB
The basis of any democracy is its people. Teenage students constitute the hope of
future democracy and economic development of the country. If opportunity is provided to
handle life situations will no doubt, they contribute much for the development in the form of
enlightening the citizens. Teaching and sensitizing the students in turn enlightens the citizens
of the community about the spirit of protection of consumer rights.
Therefore with this moto consumer club is formed in the college to sensitize students
about consumer issues prevailing in society and strengthen consumerism.
Vision:
To help, protect and empower consumer.
Mission:
 To enable students to understand fundamental rights and duties of a consumer.
 To impart knowledge about product standards, quality and about markets.
 To learn about laws enacted for protection, welfare of consumers and
concerned enforcement authorities.
 To develop a sense of methods of exploitation and adulteration.
 To assist them in purchase decisions about importance and priorities.
Consumer club was inaugurated in our college in 2007. Every year in the first staff
meeting consumer club committee will be constituted by Head of the Institution in
consultation with IQAC and senior faculty members. Two faculty members will be
nominated as convenor and member and student also will be nominated as members for
transparency and decentralization of administration. Constitution of the committee for 2015-
16 is as follows,
S. No Name Position
01 Smt. Sameera Nazneen,
Pricncipal(FAC)
Chairperson
02 Smt. A. Veerapapamamba,
Associate prof. in Commerce
Convenor
03 Dr. SP. Krishnaveni,
Asst, prof. in Economics
Member
04 Pooja
B.Com III (CA)
Student Member
05 Vara Lakshmi
B.A. III TM
Student Member
06 Sana Student Member

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B.A. III UM
07 Y. Meghamala
B.Sc. BZC III
Student Member
Every year the consumer club conducts student seminars / workshops on consumer
protection and also arranges demo on food adulteration and water analysis, before National
Consumer Day i.e., on Dec, 24. It also conducts college level elocution and essay writing
competitions and the selected students will participate at District level and State level
competitions organized by Dept. of Consumer affairs and civil supplies , State Govt.
organization.
Following are the achievements of students in the competitions bagging cash awards
at district and state levels.
S.No Name Occasion Event Position Organized by
1
Rukmini
B.Com III
2010-11
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Telugu
State-I, Cash
award of
Rs.10,000 and
Dist-I Cash award
of Rs.3,000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
2
Bee Bee Zakera
B.Sc II
2010-11
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Urdu
Dist-I &
State - I
Cash award of
Rs.3,000 & Rs.
10,000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
3
Shamantha
B.Com III
2011-12
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Telugu
State-I, Cash
award of
Rs.10,000
andDist-I Cash
award of Rs.3,000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
4
Farheen Begum
BA III
2011-12
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Urdu
Dist- I, Cash
award of Rs.3,000
and
State- II, Cash
Award of
Rs.5,000.
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
5
Nafees Fathima
BA III
2011-12
National
Consumers
Day
Essay
Writing in
Urdu
Dist- I Cash
award of Rs.3,000
and
State- II, Cash
Award of
Rs.5,000.
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies

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Nazia Begum
BA III
2012-13
National
Consumers
Day
Essay
Writing in
Urdu
Dist- I, Cash
award of
Rs.3,000.
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
7
A. Meena
B.Com III
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Essay
Writing in
Telugu
Dist- I, Cash
award of
Rs.3,000.
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
8
A. Meena
B.Com III
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Telugu
Dist- II, Cash
award of
Rs.2,000.
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
9
Humera Zabeen
BA III
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Essay
writing in
Urdu
Dist-I
Cash award of
Rs.3000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
10
Nazneen Sultana
BA II
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Essay
writing in
Urdu
Dist-II
Cash award of
Rs.2000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
11
Humera Zabeen
BA III
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Urdu
Dist-I
Cash award of
Rs.3000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
12
Farhana Begum
BA II
2013-14
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Urdu
Dist-II
Cash award of
Rs.2000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
13
Farhana Begum
BA III
2014-15
National
Consumers
Day
Elocution
in Urdu
Dist-I
Cash award of
Rs.3000
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
14
Amreen
BA III
National
Consumers
Day
Eloction in
Urdu
Dist- III
Cash award of
Rs.1500
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,

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2014-15 Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
15
K.Chitra
B.A. II
Laxmi
B.Com II
2014-15
National
Consumers
Day
Eloction in
Telugu
Dist- III
Cash award of
Rs.750 each
Dept. of
Consumer
Affairs,
Commissioner of
Civil Supplies
The club has been inspiring the students through speeches, seminars and demonstrations.
Presented below are the activities conducted since last five years.
S.No Date Topic Resource Person Brief Report
1 19.08.2010
Seminar on
Consumer
rights & duties
Sri.Narasimha Reddy,
Dist. Consumer forum
president
An awareness program cum seminar
was held in the college in which
students presented papers.
2 18.12.2010
Consumer
Rights and
Duties
Competitions
Sri.Phelix Edward
College level Elocution and Essay
writing competitions were conducted
3 18.12.2012
Institutional
initiative
Smt.P.Kalyani
Dept. of Commerce conducted
College level compititions on
Consumer Day
4 29.11.2013
Consumer
protection and
Food
adultration
Sri.Venu, Dist.
Consumer forum
secretary
An awareness program on the Rights
and Duties of consumers, various
consumer protection acts was
organised. Students of Dept. of
Chemistry made a demo on food
adulteration.
5 19.02.2014
Awareness
program on
Mutual funds
Sri.Chakravarthy, PO,
Vijaya Kumar, CRO
To make the staff aware of the mutual
funds and their benefits different kinds
of banking services available to the
customers are explained
6 20.11.2014
Seminar on
Consumer
Protection
Smt. Sameera
Nazneen, Principal
Students presented papers on
consumer protection and various
topics like consumer rights, duties,
consumer protection act, RIA,
Guarnatee, warantee, adultration,
measurents, advertisements etc.
Chemistry students demonstrated
different adultration methods & the
ways to detect it.

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Impact:
The students were made aware of consumer rights and duties, the evidence was based
on the feedback received from them. Many of them felt that the programs are highly effective
and beneficial to them. Second evidence is that every year our students are bagging District
and state level prizes in the competitions organized on the eve of National Consumer Day by
Dept. of consumer Affairs and Civil Supplies, Govt. of Telangana.
CONVENOR PRICNCIPAL
Members:
1. Dr. SP. Krishnaveni,
2. Pooja
3. Vara Lakshmi
4. Sana
5. Y. Meghamala

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Students Seminar on Consumer Protection
Student receiving state level award from Sri. D. Sridhar Babu,
Hon’ble minister for Higher Education

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Demonstration on food adulteration
Sri. Phelix Edward, Principal along with winners in consumer protection
competitions