Question: When ‘World Consumer Rights Day’ is celebrated?
(a) March 18
(b) March 13
(c) March 15
(d) March 17
Answer- (c)
Related facts:
- World Consumer Rights Day was celebrated on March 15, 2017, across the world.
- The theme of this day for the year 2017 is “Building a Digital World Consumers Can Trust”.
- The object of the day is to make consumers aware of their rights and responsibilities.
- Significantly, on March 15, 1962, US President John F. Kennedy had first defined the Consumer Rights.
- On March 15, 1983, the day was celebrated for the first time.
- It is notable that in India ‘National Consumer Day’ is observed every year on 24 December.
- It is to be noted that the ‘Consumer Protection Act’ was enacted on the same day (December 24th) in year 1986.
Reference:
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/PrintRelease.aspx?relid=159261
http://www.consumersinternational.org/our-work/wcrd/
https://consumersinternational.blogspot.in/2017/03/a-digital-world-that-is-all-of-ours.html