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World Consumer Rights Day: PM Modi salutes consumers, calls for end of black money

| | Mar 15, 2017, at 11:34 pm
New Delhi, Mar 15 (IBNS): Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Wednesday urged consumers to give up on the malpractice of corruption and black money, while greeting them on World Consumer Rights Day.

"This World Consumer Rights Day, I urge consumers to embrace digital transactions & join the movement to end corruption & black money," his tweet read.

"Government of India is at the forefront of several initiatives that protect the rights of the consumer & ensure their grievances are solved," a subsequent tweet read.

The Prime Minister also hailed consumers as the backbone of economy.

"On World Consumer Rights Day we salute the consumer, on whose purchasing power the growth of our economy rests," he said.

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