GUWAHATI, May 27 – The markets of the North eastern region are flooded with spurious goods including building materials and a section of unscrupulous traders are duping the gullible customers even with fake ISI markings on the spurious goods.
The secretary of the Federation of Industries and Commerce of the North Eastern Region (FINER) Prasanta Goswami told The Assam Tribune that such spurious goods including building materials not only pose problems for the customers but also for the honest traders and manufacturers. He said that several members of the FINER have taken up the matter with the office of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) and the Federation is also planning to take up the issue with the BIS soon.
Goswami revealed that several such instances of a few unscrupulous traders duping the customers have come to the notice of the FINER. He revealed that the Federation is aware of markets flooded with substandard GI pipes and tubes with fake ISI markings.