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1) National Consumer Day: 24th December
•On this day the Consumer Protection Act, 1986 was enacted. The Act aims to provide consumers with effective safeguards against different types of exploitation, such as defective goods, deficiency in services and unfair trade practices.
2) Good Governance Day: 25 December
•Atal Bihari Vajpayee served as the Prime Minister of India for three times. His first term was for only 13 days in 1996. He served his second term for a period of thirteen months from March 1998 to April 1999 and then a full term from 1999 to 2004. His first entry into parliament was in 1962 through the Rajya Sabha. He was elected to the Lok Sabha seven times. In 2015, Mr Vajpayee was conferred the Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian award.
3) Rohtang tunnel in Himachal Pradesh named as Atal tunnel
4) Petroleum Minister unveils India’s first long distance CNG bus
5) Hemant Soren to take oath as Jharkhand CM on Dec 29
