To mark World Consumer Day, Mysore Grahakara Parishat and
Bahadur Institute of Management Sciences of Manasa Gangotri held a
daylong consumer awareness program today for the public.
In this programme, students of Vidyashrama and Sri Chhayadevi
BEd. College gave demo-exhibitions on detection of food adulteration,
making water potable, rain water harvesting and removing pesticide
residues from vegetables. Lectures for the public, especially commerce
and MBA students were given on right to information (by RTI expert Prof.
S.Sekhar), water potability (by Dr.K.S. Manja, former DFRL scientist),
consumer courts (by Uma Shenoy, former member, Mysore District Consumer
Forum) and ground water (by V. Mahesha, formerly geologist with the
Department of Geology).
S.Sekhar, Mysore Grahakara Parishat