CITIZEN CONSUMER CLUB

The Citizen Consumer Club of Dr. Mahalingam College of Engineering and Technology, Pollachi has taken an initiative to enhance awareness amongst the student community about the rights and responsibilities of a consumer. Citizen Consumer Club has been working with great enthusiasm and commitment. The CC Club has been collaborating with Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection Department (Govt. of Tamil Nadu), FEDCOT and other such private organizations to create awareness on consumer rights and adulteration issues. Students actively participate in competitions.

The objective of the club is to educate and motivate the Consumer Club Members about the rights and responsibilities of consumers and to make the members inculcate the valuable inputs which they gained among the general public; to join hands with other voluntary consumer organizations and with other consumer clubs to enhance consumer movement; and to collaborate, cooperate, actively participate and function in accordance with the Department of Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Government of Tamil Nadu.

-> To protect, help and empower consumer.

-> To make possible students to be aware of fundamental rights and duties of a consumer.

-> To communicate information about product standards, quality and about markets.

-> To extend a sense of methods of abuse and adulteration.

-> To gain knowledge about laws enacted for protection, welfare of consumers and concerned enforcement authorities.

ACTIVITIES OF THE CLUB:

In order to achieve the above said objectives, Consumer Clubs have to be activated through some structured activities. Active Consumer Clubs may go beyond this and also take up innovative activities. Club office bearers meetings are happening twice in a month and the minutes are recorded. Minutes of each activity have to be recorded by the Student and Teacher Coordinator jointly to document. The club organizes programmes like orientation, workshops, field visits, awareness meeting, quizzes and fresher’s meet for first year students.

CELEBRATIONS OF THE CLUB:

Every year in memory of certain important days, the club celebrates:

-> World Consumer Rights Day

-> National Consumer Day

-> National Youth Day

-> World Food Day

-> National Consumer Protection Day