11,702 Complaints Linked To ‘Housing’ Pending With NCDRC
<span style="font-weight: 400;">As per the consumer affairs ministry 11,702 consumer complaints relating to “housing” are pending with the national consumer commission, NCDRC. A total of 4,150 cases are pending before the consumer commissions in Delhi during the past five years. </span> <span sty
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Jul 26, 2021 4:14 AM
As per the consumer affairs ministry 11,702 consumer complaints relating to “housing” are pending with the national consumer commission, NCDRC. A total of 4,150 cases are pending before the consumer commissions in Delhi during the past five years. On whether the government proposes to set up fast track courts to clear cases of persons above 70 years of age, the ministry said, “Consumer Protection (Consumer Commission Procedure) Regulations, 2020 notified under the Consumer Protection Act, 2019 provides that the cases filed by or against the senior citizens, physically challenged, widows and persons suffering from serious ailments shall be listed and disposed of on a priority basis.” On the number of complaints pending in consumer commissions across the states in the past two years, the ministry said in 2019 a total of 1.71 lakh complaints were filed and 1.26 lakh of them were disposed off. But in 2020, the consumer commissions could dispose off less than 50% of the complaints. The ministry said the commissions disposed off 53,352 complaints out of the 1,15,866 complaints. The number of pending cases was 63,733 during last year.
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