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Suggestions regarding action that citizen can take against Misleading Advertisements

Suggestions regarding action that citizen can take against Misleading Advertisements
Start Date :
Jan 01, 2015
Last Date :
Jan 24, 2015
04:15 AM IST (GMT +5.30 Hrs)
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Any consumer movement can be successful only with the whole-hearted participation by the consumers.  All the citizens of the country are consumers in one way or the ...

Any consumer movement can be successful only with the whole-hearted participation by the consumers.  All the citizens of the country are consumers in one way or the other.  The citizens, therefore, is expected to be pro-active in identifying misleading advertisement, suggest effective measures to tackle such advertisements and are also expected to offer out of the box ideas so that the movement against misleading advertisement can really picks up the desired momentum.

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Suggestions are invited regarding action that citizen can take against Misleading Advertisements.

The last date for submission of your comments is 23rd January 2015.

For more information on Misleading Advertisements: http://cdn.mygov.nic.in/bundles/frontendgeneral/pdf/brief-on-misleading-...

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Rajan Kattoor
Rajan Kattoor 11 years 1 month ago
To protect public interest, all commercials irrespective of thru which media it publishes should comply certain criteria. Else the owner of the advertisement as well as the publisher must be penalized.
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Muthukrishnan Balasundaram
Muthukrishnan Balasundaram 11 years 1 month ago
As we have a sensor board for Cinemas, we need to establish a board (instead of ASCI which does not cover Ads-reality)to check the content before broadcasting. And the Board should have well qualified resource person or they can affiliate with any leading institutes like IIT, IIM etc to check for the trustworthiness of the product being advertised. By doing this, the people will get right message from the product promoter and the government indirectly endorse the genuinity of the product.
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Giftson felix D
Giftson felix D 11 years 1 month ago
All the citizens must be able file a complaint on those companies.these companies must be fined heavily.involvement of politicians in this case must be avoided so that all will come forward to file a complaint.seal off the company at least for one month.arrest those company heads and bring them in front of media so that other advertisers stop this.establish a special committee to check the advertisement before it is telecasted.
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mahesh kumar rathi
mahesh kumar rathi 11 years 1 month ago
fines .heavy fines on misleading ads of questionable gifts and with rewards given to citizens who unearth fraud .step 1. any ad promising gift must be certified by chartered accountant and the gifts must be physically verified by advertising council of india.any misleading ad of curing diseases must be stopped fortwith and the advertisers and channels fined heavily.
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Unnikrishnan Cheppail
Unnikrishnan Cheppail 11 years 1 month ago
Sirs, Our law should allow consumers sue celebrity advertisers appearing in various media to claim compensation. Further, we should make law that OEMs must have buy back arrangements of their product particularly consumer durables after its economic life to avoid consumers dumping the residual products elsewhere. This will also be a step towards our Swachh Bharat Abhiyan. Thanks
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RAMESH DUGAR
RAMESH DUGAR 11 years 1 month ago
Most people are interested in new products because of the person recommending it.when a product is recommended by HEMA MALINI or AMITABH BACHHAN it carries their reputation also therefore people advertising or recommending must be made responsible for the quality of product also .as they are getting endorsement fees it becomes their duty also not to recommend spurious products. If this is done then celebrities will not endorse technologically poor products and consumers will be saved .
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Gaurav Date
Gaurav Date 11 years 1 month ago
Happy to see open forum for Misleading Advertisements. I would urge if we could include the religion advertisements (ie. Hanuman lockets / laxmi yantra) which are been played on various channels as it is playing with sentiments of people. Kindly consider the same as well in it.
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