It is good news for consumers, lawyers and people of south Odisha in general and Brahmapur city in particular that their longstanding demand for establishment of a circuit bench of the State Consumer Commission here would be fulfilled very soon.
The circuit bench will sit in the RDC office’s court hall here for two days on November 17 and 18. The Secretary of the State Consumer Commission has written to the RDC in this regard. The president of the consumer forum and Consumers’ lawyers Association, Brhampur have also been informed about the decision.
Consumer cases from districts like Ganjam, Gajapati, Rayagada, Koraput, Nabarangpur, Malkangiri, Kalahandi, Nuapada, Phulbani and Boudh would be heard in this circuit bench.
The Food Supplies and Consumer Welfare Department had published a formal notification to open the circuit bench on September 29.
Consumers’ lawyers Association president Shiva Prasad Mishra, former president Kailash Chandra Mishra and Satish Panigrahi said now consumers need not to go to Cuttack to file their appeals as the circuit bench would serve the purpose.