Why there is a need for Consumer Awareness?

In this era of globalization and capitalism the main objective of the producers has mainly shifted towards maximizing their profits by every possible means and in this process they forget their duties and obligations towards end-users and consumers. Sometimes the consumers are even cheated by the trading and marketing community by adopting unfair trade practices for which consumers need to be protected. To prevent such exploitation our Society is transforming the uneducated and exploited consumers by imparting valuable knowledge by holding various seminars, road-shows and conferences thereby converting them into a knowledgeable lot. In fact our society is acting more like a supplement to the existing legal protective mechanism for preventing the exploitation of consumers at large in the hands of traders, manufactures and other marketing agents.