Friday 14 November 2014

Department of Consumer Affairs joins hands with ASCI

Strengthening its mission towards self-regulation in advertising, Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution, has officially partnered with Advertising Standard Council of India (ASCI) to augment the efforts on stopping misleading advertisements. The collaboration will see joint efforts to evaluate and pass strictures against the violators. The six priority sectors that would be covered are agriculture and food, health, education, housing, financial services and e-commerce.
DoCA will redirect the complaints received by it to ASCI to avoid duplication of processing of complaints against advertisements that is already under process by ASCI. The complaints will be evaluated across media like print, packaging, internet, outdoor, wall paintings, posters, bill boards, etc.
While the operational aspects of this collaboration between DoCA and ASCI is being worked upon, DoCA has requested ASCI to flag off  advertisements that are in clear violation of the law (for instance, claims regarding cure of diseases such as diabetes, cancer, sexual impotence, leucoderma (white spots), paralysis etc, covered under the Drugs and Magic Remedies Act). This would enable prompt action against such non-scrupulous advertisers and protect consumer interest.
This partnership will go a long way in ensuring that all ads released in the country are honest, decent, safe and fair to competition

Sourcehttp://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/6108-department-of-consumer-affairs-joins-hands-with-asci.html

Source: http://cablequest.org/news/national-news/item/6108-department-of-consumer-affairs-joins-hands-with-asci.html

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