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Include consumers’ rights in curriculum: NCF

KATHMANDU, JAN 12 - Participants of the third convention of Nepal Consumers’ Forum (NCF), Kathmandu, today demanded to include materials about consumers rights in the school curriculum.They also underlined that the government should keep into account the consumers’ interest while formulating policies or taking crucial decisions that make impact over the consumers’ health and economic status.Speaking on the occasion, former minister Marshal Julum Shakya urged the government to initiate appropriate measures to check the sale of substandard and adulterated goods in the markets.
"Time and again traders have made the consumers fall victims of the substandard commodities," he said and added that trend of this kind has created high risks to the lives people.
Harendra Bahadur Basnet, President of NCF opined that the consumers would be always in risk until the government checks the low quality products and their sales in the Nepalese market. Posted on: 2004-01-13 03:36

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