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World Consumer Rights Day – 15 March
March 17 , 2018
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- The World Consumer Rights Day (WCRD) is celebrated every year on March 15 to promote basic rights of consumers and raising awareness about consumer rights.
- The theme of the WCRD for the year 2018 is “Making Digital Market Places Fairer”
- The WCRD commemorate the historic address given by the then US President John F Kennedy to the US congress on this day in 1962. He was the first world leader to formally define ‘consumer rights’.
- The first WCRD was observed on 15 March 1983.
- In India, 24th December is observed as National Consumer Day. On this day in 1986, Consumer Protection Act, 1986 had received the assent of the President.
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