The consumer authority has issued a special gazette notice imposing several conditions related to the production, import, and sale of 48 goods, including essential goods.
Under that, a customer must supply a requested product without delay within a reasonable period of time and the conditions of the said gazette notice have also been laid down.
It is further ordered in the relevant gazette notification that every time a product is sold, a copy of a receipt containing the customer’s identity, date and value of the product should be taken in his possession.
The commodities subject to such conditions include food items such as rice, wheat flour, eggs, lentils, tinned fish, milk powder, garlic, chicken, green beans, potatoes, dry chillies and sugar.
Also, cement, bricks, sand, steel, automobile spare parts, fertilizers and agrochemicals required for the construction industry have also been subjected to conditions by the relevant gazette notification.