समाचार

Central and state governments are bulk buyers of medicines to be used in their hospitals and dispensaries. Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) was a government-owned premium drug-manufacturing company in yesteryears which was known for providing quality medicines at cost much below the famous branded medicines. For example, Calmod was its own brand-name for sleeping pill with salt diazepam (5 mgs) as a cheaper substitute sold at a fractional cost of popular branded medicines sold under tradename Calmpose and Valium-5. With generic medicines being sold at exorbitant profit-margins upto with maximum-retail-price (MRP) printed at even 400-percent of than that available at wholesale drug market in Bhagirath Palace (Delhi), there is every likelihood of a big bribe margin in their s...

 Consumers filing complaints advised to approach consumer-courts My complaint dated 01.11.2018 against non-supply of desired pre-booked meal in GoAir flight-number 145 from Delhi to Ranch with seat-number 6A and PNR-number DE164B on 29.10.2018 reached to Department of Consumer Affairs when a lady calling from telephone-number 23761699 of the Department on 12.12.2018 at 10.55 am for more than 12 minutes (voice-recording with me) strongly advocated for GoAir that the airliner did so according to rules framed by GoAir, and I must have been aware of such anti-consumer rules of GoAir before pre-booking the meal. She further asked me to approach Consumer Court in case I wished to challenge GoAir rules. If consumers are to approach consumer-courts for such petty matters and anti-public rules, ...