Kathmandu, Sept. 2 -- Consumer rights activists and retailers have questioned the government's capacity to implement the new market monitoring procedure recently unveiled by the Ministry of Industry, Commerce and Supplies for public feedback.

The Market Monitoring Procedure 2020, which came out earlier this week, is designed to protect consumers and will require businesses to follow certain quality standards.

"This is just to show that a process has been fulfilled as provisioned in the Consumer Protection Act and its regulations, but it may not be effectively implemented," said Madhav Prasad Timilsina, president of the Consumer Rights Investigation Forum.

"If the government had implemented the regulations effectively, there would be no...