National Consumer Lok Adalat was held on Saturday at Madhya Pradesh State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, Bhopal and District Consumer Disputes Redressal Commissions of the state.
At the state level, the court was set up under the guidance of Ashok Kumar Tiwari, Executive Chairman, State Consumer Commission. Similarly, in various districts of the state also, cases were resolved through Lok Adalat.
Registrar State Consumer Commission Shobhit Jain has informed that the proceedings were conducted in the Lok Adalats for resolution of the cases of banking, insurance, electricity, medical, telephone, agriculture, automobile, housing, airlines, railways etc. pending in the State Consumer Commission and District Consumer Commissions. In the State Commission, 17 cases were resolved through mutual agreement. An amount of Rs 5 lakh 21 thousand 938 was distributed in this. Similarly, mutual agreement was reached in 404 cases in the district commissions of the state. In this, an amount of Rs 4 crore 97 lakh 81 thousand 131 was distributed.