Consumer club (1) (1)

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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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6

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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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