Advise Suraj (a member of NGO) to adopt the relevent ways and means of Consumer Protection in the following cases :
(a) Suraj had received a faulty bill from the electricity department and could not settle the matter amicably. Where should he go?
(b) Suraj came to know that a Sma

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Advise Suraj (a member of NGO) to adopt the relevent ways and means of Consumer Protection in the following cases :
(a) Suraj had received a faulty bill from the electricity department and could not settle the matter amicably. Where should he go?
(b) Suraj came to know that a Small Scale Industry of the nearby area is throwing its waste into river. What shoud he do?

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> Where amicable settlement fails, Suraj should use the formal three-tier consumer redressal machinery for his own billing grievance; for the pollution case, as a socially-conscious NGO member, he should escalate it to the environmental regulatory authority and use consumer-awareness/advocacy channels.
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> **(a) Faulty electricity bill, could not be settled amicably:**
> Since direct/informal resolution with the electricity department failed, Suraj (as a consumer who has been supplied a defective/deficient service — a faulty bill amounts to a deficiency in service) should file a formal **complaint before the Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission** (ordinarily the District Commission, given the nature and likely value of such a claim), seeking correction of the bill and any applicable relief/compensation. This is exactly the kind of individual consumer grievance the three-tier Consumer Commission structure (District → State → National) exists to redress.
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> **(b) Small Scale Industry throwing waste into the river:**
> This is not a simple billing/defective-goods dispute but a case of environmental pollution affecting the wider public/community — beyond what an individual consumer complaint to a Consumer Commission is designed for. As a member of an NGO working for consumer welfare, Suraj should:
> - **Report the matter to the (State) Pollution Control Board**, the regulatory authority responsible for monitoring and acting against industrial pollution of water bodies. …

Q.Advise Suraj (a member of NGO) to adopt the relevent ways and means of Consumer Protection in the following cases :

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Q.Advise Suraj (a member of NGO) to adopt the relevent ways and means of Consumer Protection in the following cases :

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