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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.

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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Kaushik Dessai 11 years 8 months ago

A website could be started wherein citizens can bring to the notice of the authorities the fraudulent advertisements issued in newspapers etc. Consumer education should be incorporated in school syllabus. TV Advertisements creating awarness by feauturing celebrities should be continued. The newspapers should also be appealed not to publish such ads jsut for the sake of money. Journalism is a noble cause and money is not the only motive there.

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Ramandeep Singh Sahota 11 years 8 months ago

If there is an action to be taken towards misleading advertisements the biggest contributor has to be the consumer. If anybody who is going to come across the misleading advertisements its the consumer. Therefore the consumer has to step ahead and report any misleading advertisement that he comes across. Government should have a separate department or give the power to act against the same to some other department/court which can be reached comfortably by the consumer

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Pradeep Tayal 11 years 8 months ago

Consumer court laws should be there regarding misleading advertisements. Heavy fine should be levied on the companies for giving these type of advertisements. If Fair & Lovely does not make any one GORA (Which never happen in actual) then there should be a clear consumer court case against the company and company should be fined one year revenue from the same product.

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KALYANA SUNDARAM 11 years 8 months ago

VIGILLANCE SYSTEM : The Vigillance Commission and other simillar set up for prevention of corruption are proving to be a huge hinderance in quick decision making, expeditious implementation of projects, procurement of quality products. The complaince of CVC guidelines prevents one from buying quality product. Any way these guidelines does not stop corrupt ppl from making money but it only prevents honest ones from doing their job expeditiously and fairly.

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KALYANA SUNDARAM 11 years 8 months ago

We must do away with the distrust amongst various interest groups. We should do away with this system of compulsorily having a member of minority community, one member of SC/ST and one women representative in various Interview Boards for recruitment/promotion etc. All this was done for appeasement of respective interest groups with vote bank in mind. It creates distrust amongst various sections of the society at large.

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Pradeep Tayal 11 years 8 months ago

LUX, VIM BAR, LIFEBUY, PONDS, FAIR & LOVELY, DOVE are all very high priced low quality products but selling through Advertisements only. There should be some norms regarding earning of profits of any company from a particular products. All companies are looting Indians by using the word "BRAND". Peoples foolishly chases so called BRANDS (which are actually their campaign part) and companies are making huge profits. The samples of all the products which are sold in INDIA will definitely fail.

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Pradeep Tayal 11 years 8 months ago

The MNC companies are selling their products only through misleading advertisements. Bournvita "increase height and strength" Fair & Lovely, Ponds "BADHAYE GORAPAN" etc etc. Why dont they are selling their products in African countries where these are needed most. SURF EXCEL increases prices just by changing Brand name. Kabhi SURF EXCEL BLUE, kabhi SURF EXCEL CLEAN, kabhi kuch kabhi kuch. Product same but every time just make a new advt and increase prices. HINDUSTAN UNILEVER is EAST INDIA Co.

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ram sundar singh 11 years 8 months ago

GIRL child are being killed due to DOWRY system of our society..we have to eradicate it by hook or crook. SWAKCHH BHARAT ABHIYAN needs money but DOWRY HATAO ABHIYAN costs nothing .It needs to propagate the will of the government among the citizen.

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Prakash Chandra Saini 11 years 8 months ago

इससे न केवल जनता को मज़बूरी में पानी 20 रूपये लीटर खरीदना पड़ेगा बल्कि साथ ही प्लास्टिक बोतलों से पर्यावरण को होने वाले नुकसान से देश को मुक्ति मिल जाएगी। हाँ ऐसा होने पर पानी बेचने वालो की अवश्य छुट्टी हो जाएगी। किसी सरकार ने ऐसा किया नहीं क्योंकि 1 रूपये से भी कम का पानी जब 20 रूपये में बिकता है, तो शेयर ऊपर तक जाता है। क्या इस पानी घोटाले को बंद करवाने के लिए आप हमारे साथ हैं।

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Prakash Chandra Saini 11 years 8 months ago

आज देश के 80% रेलवे स्टेशन पर खराब पानी मिलता है। और बोतल बँद पानी धड्ले से 20 रूपये लीटर में बिक रहा है। मेरा मानना है की करोड़ो रूपये की लागत से बने रेलवे स्टेशन पर क्या 3-4 लाख रूपये और लगाकर 30-40 RO water फ़िल्टर नहीं लगाये जा सकते। आप कह सकते है की इनका maintenence महंगा हो जायेगा तो मेरा तर्क है की क्या इन RO के पास में दान पात्र रखा जा सकता है। मुझे पूरा विशवास है की मेरे भारत वर्ष की दानवीर जनता 1-2 रूपये करके daily इतना पैसा तो डाल ही देगी की जितने से इन RO का daily maintenence हो सके।

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