Empowering Citizens through Consumer Protection Act

After the Rights to Information Act, it is now the turn of Consumer Protection Act, 1986. The government has initiated a big move to enlarge the scope of the Act where any consumer can approach it for deficiency in services, even those relating to the public service utilities, and seek redressal. This is to empower the citizens further to seek quality service and even restraining the service companies like the mobile companies, from sharing your data with others for commercial purposes.

This throws a great challenge for the public relations practitioners in every organisations, who must prepare themselves to conduct regular internal audit for the services their organisation offers to their consumers and set up early warning systems for possible fallout of any deficient or incomplete service.

Register for All India PR Conference

The registration for the 28th All India Public Relations Conference is open. The Early Bird on the registration is available till 20th November 2006. So plesae hurry:

PRSI/IPRA Members: Rs.3,000
Non-Members: Rs.3,500
Students : Rs.500
Spouse: Rs.1800
Former PR Professionals: Rs.1500

After 20th November, the registration charges shall go up by Rs.500.

Please send registration by cheque/demand draft drawn in favour of "PRSI Lucknow Conference-2006", payable at Lucknow, and should be sent to the Secretary, Organising Committee.

Download the Registration Form from www.prsi.in

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28th All India Public Relations Conference

The 28th All India Public Relations Conference, the premier event for the PR practitioners, is being held at Lucknow on 8-10 December 2006. It is important that every PR practitioner in the country joins in and attends this event at Lucknow.
The program and registration details are being sent soon. However, you can block your dates for participation.
Those of us who can help in any way can contact the Chairman/Secretary of the Lucknow Chapter for any help :

Mr. Ratan Mani Lal, Chairman, PRSI Lucknow Chapter
Jaipuria School of Mass Communication,
Vineet Khand, Gomti Nagar,
Lucknow 226 010
Phone: 0522 2300295 / 2394297
Fax: 0522 2394295
email: prsilucknow@rediffmail.com

Mr. Bhuvnesh Agarwal, Secretary PRSI Lucknow Chapter
Phone: 0522 2204706 / 9415017184 / 9849057488.

Google Search for India PR

Want to know about Indian PR industry? Google has now a special search for India PR. Click on the link below to find out more.
http://www.google.com/coop/cse?cx=000160208288332156671%3Aisw9io-_nx8

The search engine is being optimised with more and more information being added to it and in a few months time it would become a veritable source of information on the Indian PR industry. Isn't that great?

Do You Blog?

Sometimes back Chandigarh Chapter held a special programme to introduce the PR practitioners about blogging. But it seems not many have started their interaction with blogs.

At least visit your own blog of PRSI Chandigarh, www.prsichd.blogspot.com.

Indian PR Industry

The largest blogspot for the Indian PR practitioners has added a number of websites as a resource for the PR professionals in the country, which also includes yours truly's blogspot as well as our website, prsi.in. To read more, log on to:
http://indiapr.blogspot.com/2006/10/customised-indian-pr-industry-search.html

If you come across the Indian PR-related websites, do report on the blog or respond.