AI-generated practice question — model-generated for extra practice, not a previous-year CBSE board question.
Answer: B
The consumer movement as an organised social force in India originated due to rampant food shortages, hoarding, black marketing, and adulteration of food and edible oil in the 1960s.
Source: Consumer Movement, Chapter 5
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The textbook explicitly states: "Rampant food shortages, hoarding, black marketing, adulteration of food and edible oil gave birth to the consumer movement in an organised form in the 1960s." Globalisation, RTI Act, and Consumers International came much later and are distractors. Always look for the phrase "organised form" — that is the key qualifier in the question.