Who will give justice to consumer forum?
Tribune News Service LUDHIANA, Aug 17 The District Consumer Redressal Forum which redresses grievances of the consumers is itself in need of help. Functioning from a rented building near the Ghanta Ghar chowk, the forum exists in one of the dirtiest areas of the city. A proposal of providing two rooms to the forum in the Punjab Bachat Bhavan building near Mini-Secretariat is under consideration for the past one year but not much progress has been in this regard. While the forum awaits its new office, it has no option but to continue functioning from its present location. Housed in a floor of a building owned by the Zila Parishad, the forum is near a lottery bazaar. Due to rush of people to the lottery bazaar, the way leading to the second floor location of the forum is infested with litter and dirt, The entrance at the stairs leading to the floor is always filled with a small pond of water which accumulates there due to some kind of drainage problem of the building. The consumers have