Class 12 Business Studies - Chapter Consumer Protection NCERT Solutions | Under which consumer right does a busine

Mrs. Mathur sent a jacket to a laundry shop in January 2018. The jacket was purchased at a price of ₹4,500. She had previously sent the jacket for dry cleaning with Shine Dry Cleaners and the jacket was cleaned well. However, she noticed that her jacket had white discoloration marks when she collected the jacket this time. On informing the dry cleaner, Mrs. Mathur received a letter confirming that discolouration indeed appeared after the jacket was dry cleaned. She contacted the dry cleaner multiple times and requested for compensation for discoloured jacket but to no avail.

Upon Consumer court’s intervention, Shine Dry Cleaners agreed to compensate ₹2,500 to Mrs. Mathur for the discoloured jacket.

a. Which right was exercised by Mrs. Mathur at the first instance.
b. Name and explain the right which helped Mrs. Mathur to avail the compensation.
c. State which consumer responsibility has been fulfilled by Mrs. Mathur in the above case.
d. State any other two responsibilities to be assumed by the consumers.

Explain the redressal mechanism available to consumers under the Consumer Protection Act, 1986.

FSSAI (Food Safety and Standards Authority of India) has made a proposal for hotels and other food outlets to declare the kind of oil/fat used in cooking each of the food items on their menus. Name and explain the Consumer Right being reinforced by this proposal.

Name the component of product mix that helps the consumer to exercise the right to information.

Who can file a complaint in a consumer court?

Which quality certification mark is used for agricultural products?

Enumerate the various Acts passed by the Government of India which help in protection of consumers’ interests.

State any two relief available to consumers under CPA.

Explain the role of consumer organisations and NGOs in protecting and promoting consumer’s interest.

Explain the importance of consumer protection from the point of view of a business.

How does planning provide direction?

What is meant by staffing?

Identify the network of social relationships which arises spontaneously due to interaction at work.

What is informal communication?

State the meaning of controlling.

What is meant by capital structure?v

What is meant by management?

What is a Treasury Bill?

State any two advantages of branding to marketers of goods and services?

What makes principles of management flexible?

State the basic features of management as a profession.

What is a Financial Market?

Name any two important characteristics of management.

Explain how management audit serves as an effective technique of controlling.

In an organisation, one of the departmental manager is inflexible and once he takes a decision, he does not like to be contradicted. As a result, employees always feel they are under stress and they take least initiative and fear to express their opinions and problems before the manager. What is the problem in the way authority is being used by the manager?

What is meant by business environment?

What is marketing? What functions does it perform in the process of exchange of goods and services? Explain.

What is the difference between delegation and decentralization?

What are the functions of the Stock Exchange?

Discuss the importance of training for both employees and organizations.