Tuesday, September 25, 2012

Airline Pays Right for Consumer Rights



On this blog, I have often been whining about how we, the people of India are often denied our consumer rights. (read hereBut for a change, I have something new to say... thanks to the city consumer forum of Chennai.




Friday, September 21, 2012

Are you a GREENAGER.. ??

GREEN


Greenagers - Thats what I call people who are doing their bit to keep India green and young!

If you have done your bit by not littering the roads, by avoiding damage to trees... If you switch off lights regularly and carpool to limit the increasing pollution.. Then you are our GREENAGER... and an INSPIRED CITIZEN !!






Friday, September 14, 2012

How to complaint against your Mobile Operator and get solutions effectively

This is further to my previous post on how cumbersome it is to avail mobile and telecom services in India .. I thought it is necessary to share information on

HOW TO PLACE A COMPLAINT AGAINST YOUR TELECOM OPERATOR AND GET YOUR ISSUES RESOLVED !

The biggest irony of Consumerism in India is that, while nothing can ensure the QoS (Quality of Services) provided by various enterprises, there are a lot of terms and conditions with an added * which ensure customer loyalty and servility.

If you look closely to the Indian consumer-provider relationship, it will be difficult to understand who is servicing whom..?

In case of mobile services, Time and again, we all have been bugged by one or more of these problems..
  • Unfair balance deduction
  • Over Billing
  • Services not activated
  • Refund not sent..
There may be a lot of reasons that may prompt you to complaint against your operator.
But, you have a bigger reasons that prevent you from complaining..
We do not tend to complaint because:
cartoon of subscriber complaining about mobile operator
  • It seems tedious
  • We do not have the time to visit offices/centres
  • We seldom get actions...


And many times, we actually do not want to set our blood boiling for small amount of money.

If you are tired of calling the customer care without getting suitable resolution for your problem.. then here is what you can do.

How to complaint against Mobile Operator online, without much trouble !





Wednesday, September 5, 2012

Sunday, September 2, 2012

3 hurdles for Anna Party

My last post about why you shouldn't vote BJP or NDA got sharp responses and criticism from my readers. If you are neither for NDA nor for UPA... you may find this post interesting

The main question that almost everybody has put forward was
  • am I suggesting that we should wait for the ANNA party to come forward ?
Yes, I am pointing towards the emergence of a planned political party by Arvind Kejriwal and team. But before I place my trust upon a handful of activists, let us analyse this situation realistically..

Arvind Kejriwal and Anna will form political party

Some Bullet factual points to be considered:
  • The said political party by Arvind Kejriwal, is in formation.. How far they have proceeded we do not know..
  • The elections are coming in 2014.. which means they have less than a year and a half to accomplish the daunting task they have undertaken. 
Before they actually put up a fight in elections, there is a long list of things they have to do... some of which are: