Bhopal: On World Consumer Rights Day on March 15, various programmes will be organized at the Noronha Academy of Administration, Bhopal under the chairmanship of Minister of Food and Civil Supplies and Consumer Protection, Pradyumn Singh Tomar. Every year organizations / individuals doing excellent work in the field of consumer awareness are rewarded in the programme. At the state level, selected students of essay and poster competition will also be awarded. Along with this, a seminar will be held to create consumer awareness.
All India Consumer Education Society Gwalior, a voluntary consumer organization doing excellent work in the field of consumer protection will be given Rs 1.11 lakh, Rs 51,000 to Consumer Upliftment and Public Welfare Committee to Rewa and consolation prize to All India Consumer Upliftment Organisation Aagar Malwa and Rs 25,000 to Smriti Kanya Shiksha Samiti Gwalior.
The winners of the essay and poster competition at the state level will be awarded in the programme. In the essay competition, Yashika Goswami, a student of Government Girls Kasturba School, Bhopal, will be given the first prize, Rahul Shankar Singh Meda, student of Higher Secondary School of Excellence, Jhabua second prize and Sonali Bairagi of Government Girls Higher Secondary School, Mandsaur, will be given the third prize.
Similarly, among the selected students of the state-level poster competition, Tarannum Sheikh of School of Excellence Bhopal will be given first, Anjali Baria of Government Girls Kasturba HS School Bhopal, second and NBM Dewas student Vishal will be awarded the third prize. Consolation prize will be given to Yuvraj Gamod, a student of HS School of Excellence Jhabua and Puneet Kadwane, a student of Government of School of Excellence Ujjain.
Various departments will run consumer awareness chariots, awareness vans for people from March 11 to 15 in selected local haat-bazaar and shopping mall. During this period, consumers will be made aware through street plays and puppet shows.
