10th Class Social Science Consumer Rights Question Bank Short Answer Type - Consumer Rights

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    What factors gave birth to the consumer movement in India? Trace its evolution.

    Answer:

    Unfair practices adopted by sellers, lack of legal system to protect from competition, caused dissatisfaction among the consumers. Necessity of protecting and promoting the interests of consumers against unethical and unfair trade practices gave birth to the consumer movements in India, e.g., Hoarding, black-marketing, adulteration of food and edible oil, food shortages gave birth to consumer movements in an organized form in the 1960s.


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