1. Composition: Each district forum consists of a committee of three persons. A president and two members out of whom, one must be women who are being nominated by the state government for a term of 5 years. 

2. Qualification: The president should have the qualification to be of a district judge and out of the two members one should be an eminent person from the field of education, trade or commerce with a bachelors degree. 

3. Powers: Each district redressal agency is being given the powers of that of a civil court for enquiring into any complaints.

4. Jurisdiction: The district redressal agency is empowered to receive such complaints where the value of goods or service and compensation claimed in is not exceeding rupees twenty lakhs. 

5. Redressal Proceeding: upon the receipt of the complaint, the agency serves a notice to the opposite party referred in the complaint, such opposite party may be a seller, a distributer or a manufacturer. If needed the agency sends the sample of goods for analysis and testing in a laboratory in respect of the defect raised in the complaint.