Changes in consumer act

It refers to Union Cabinet discussing changes in Consumers Act. Besides other aspects, Union government should also make appropriate changes in Packaged Commodities Act to check menace of gimmick packaging by manufacturers to cheat consumers. It should be made compulsory to pack all packaged commodities only in packs of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 500 gms/mltrs/kgs/ltrs only to avoid gimmick packaging to befool consumers by manufacturers. Goods packed by numbers should likewise be only in packs of 1, 2, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500, 1000 and similar multiples of 1000 abolishing packing by dozens etc.

Also Union and state governments should take steps to safeguard consumer-rights like including VAT and other local taxes compulsorily in printed ?Maximum Retail Price? (MRP), imposing MRP-based excise-duty to reduce large gap between MRP and ex-factory price. India should follow South Africa in extending ?Right-To-Information? Act in private sector too.