Question: World Consumer Rights Day is celebrated on-
(a) 14 March
(b) 20 March
(c) 15 march
(d) 18 march
Ans (c)
Related facts:
- World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) is celebrated all over the world on 15 March 2016.
- The theme for World Consumer Rights Day 2016 is “antibiotics off the menu”.
- WCRD is celebrated to promote the basic rights of all consumers, for demanding that those rights are respected and protected, and for protesting the market abuses and social injustices which undermine them.
- It should be noted that every year in India 14 December is observed as “National Consumer Day”.
- On the same day in 1986, ” Consumer Protection Act ” was enacted.
Reference:
http://www.consumersinternational.org/our-work/wcrd/wcrd-2016/
https://docs.google.com/document/d/11gmRhRnjyMfYCRFI4imSg7dQAsOT3el26LR2bWepBf4/edit?pref=2&pli=1#
http://www.consumersinternational.org/our-work/wcrd/about-wcrd/
http://www.consumersinternational.org/news-and-media/news/2016/01/wcrd-2016-theme-announcement/