Q.Who is the Father of Consumer Movement?

The consumer movement in India evolved from an early, scattered phase — where consumer interests were only indirectly covered by general laws on sale of goods, weights and measures, and food safety — through a phase of voluntary consumer organisations and cooperative consumer societies formed by citizens to spread awareness and press for fairer trade practices, and finally into a phase of dedicated statutory legal protection, marked by the enactment of a specific Consumer Protection Act that recognis …