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The Consumer Protection Act, 1986, Ranganath Vadapalli Vg.

Dr. V.G.Ranganath

In India, the consumer movement began to develop in the 1960s though it took its shape in the late 1980’s. In 1982, an ‘Asian Seminar in Consumer Protection’ was organized in schools and colleges, in which 300 delegates from all the Asian Countries participated. Taking this landmark consumer movement into consideration, the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi included Consumer Protection as the 17th programme and it was put on the national agenda. For the first time, the need to create a statute for the protection of the consumers was felt.