INDUSTRIALIZATION - A HYPOCRISY-GLS/GFS/SILO TANKS
GLS/GFS/SILO TANKS| It is the age of Industrialization—the age of one of the biggest hypocrisies in today's world; once constructed on the principle of mutual benefit and upliftment of daily lifestyle has now turned into a mere play of money and dishonesty. The taste of
raw cash has made the industries fall prey to the disease of ageusia—a rare condition when one fails to taste anything—just like how they fail to taste the
flavors of humanity and honesty today. One of many such experiences encountered
with is a well-known and one of the most frequently used items in the
day-to-day life—“The GLS/GFS/SILO Tank”—and such is the “The Tank Industry”—an example that will be utilized here to case-study the contemporary fraudulent
situation.
Statistics make it evident that the GLS/GFS/SILO tank industry makes profits in the order of crores, and yet, they are so
cheap-minded to theft the customers who belong from a poor or a middle-class
family. If only they could put their brains in developing an industry further
than playing those illegal tricks, the world would have stood at a better
place. Let's try to analyze some of those cheap tricks:
- Quality Regulations:- As per the quality regulations laid by the government, the pipe-tanks must include: AS/NZ4766:2006 Polyethylene storage tanks for water and chemicals or AS/NZS ISO 9001:2016 Quality Management Systems. However, industries often try to slick out their products without maintaining proper guidelines and quality management systems, which often go out unnoticed due to limited knowledge of the public—a reason enough to make the fool out of them and manage to make a lump-sum revenue with these unfair.
- Loopholes:- Producing pipe-tanks on a large scale daily and not providing the GST assigned bills to the smaller retailers, though taking the extra tax amount from them is common malpractice executed by the industries which pile up a lot of illegal money on a daily basis.
- Not Providing antibacterial Material:- As per the guidelines provided by the AS, NZS, and the Government, the first and the foremost checklist that the Pipe-Tank the manufacturer must fulfill is the antibacterial certification. But, the selfish industries greedily try to profit by escaping this checklist due to its high price, even after knowing the detrimental and devastating effects that can be caused by this malpractice.
- Bending Rules- Unprofessinalism:- The industries tend to behave unprofessionally with their retailers by providing them with low-quality products, not picking up their calls after receiving payment, making late deliveries, and so on.
- Improper Insulation:- The
tanks once installed, are in most cases placed at the top of a building, so
that the whole building has access to the water, but improper insulation heats
up the water drastically, especially during the summer days, due to exposure to
the Sun. This causes a lot of inconveniences. However, the industries do not
bother such problems, all they wish is to earn more and more profit which leads
them to use low-quality materials to prepare the tanks without any proper
insulation so that it doesn’t last long and people will need to buy them again.
- No Galvanization:- Costly
chemicals needed for galvanization are avoided by the industries to reduce the
manufacturing cost which leads them to make more profit. They never care about
how this may lead to poor quality of pipe-tanks and affect the customers who
use it.Being under such a fraudulent system, the customers are cheated in their day-to-day lives, which harmfully affect them in numerous ways. Thus, in a democratic country like India, an ideal consumer must be aware of their consumer rights to keep away from such malpractices. The picture above enlists all the rights one needs to be aware of to prevent getting themselves cheated any further in the future. Also, it is not all the fault of the customers for the government should reinforce strict actions on such industries to control the situation and bring up the mutual-benefit principle back into balance again.
