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  1. Frequent food shortages
  2. Hoarding and Black Marketing
  3. Adulteration of food
  4. Tax on soft beverages
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Option 4 : Tax on soft beverages

Tax on soft beverages is NOT correct.

  • The lack of a legal system available to consumers to protect them from exploitation in the marketplace leads to the formation of the consumer movement in India. 
  • The consumer movement was organized in India form the 1960s.
  • The movement encourages consumers to stand up for their rights and lead to an overwhelming number of disputes in consumer courts.

  • Factors that gave rise to the consumer movement in India are:
    • Rampant food shortages.
    • Hoarding and Black Marketing.
    • Adulteration of food and edible oil.

  • The consumer movement in India was a passage to the consumer protection act in India in 1986.
  • National Consumer Day is observed every year on December 24 to spread awareness to about consumer importance, their rights, and responsibilities.
  • Consumer protection act 1986 is popularly known as COPRA.
  • United Nations adopted the UN guidelines for consumer protection in 1985.
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