{"id":5872,"date":"2022-12-22T01:28:53","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T19:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=5872"},"modified":"2025-03-27T11:25:06","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T05:55:06","slug":"committee-on-content-regulation-in-government-advertising","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/committee-on-content-regulation-in-government-advertising\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee on Content Regulation in Government Advertising"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Committee on Content Regulation in Government Advertising (CCRGA):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a three-member body.<\/li>\n<li><strong>It was formed by the Union Ministry of Information and Broadcasting in April, 2016<\/strong>, on the directions of the <strong>Supreme Court in its judgment in the Common Cause vs. Union of India case in May, 2015.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The body is set up to regulate the content of <strong>Central and State government advertisements in all media platforms.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The SC had also mandated States to constitute their own respective bodies.<\/li>\n<li>While some States have set up committees to regulate public advertising content, some have given consent to the CCRGA to monitor their advertisements.<\/li>\n<li>The SC, in its order had also issued a set of <strong>guidelines for public-funded advertising by governments.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Some of the guidelines mentioned include that government advertising should maintain <strong>political neutrality and avoid glorification of political personalities or projecting a positive impression of the party in power or a negative impression of parties critical of the government.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>They also should not be used at <strong>patronising media houses.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is ASCI?<\/h3>\n<p>The Advertising Standards Council of India (ASCI) is a voluntary self-regulatory organisation established in 1985, comprising members from marketing, creative, media, and allied companies in India and is committed to protecting the interests of Indian consumers through self-regulation in advertising.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/cities\/Delhi\/explained-what-is-the-latest-clash-between-aap-and-the-delhi-l-g\/article66290188.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Explained | What is the latest clash between AAP and the Delhi L-G?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CCRGA is set up to regulate content of Central &#038; State government advertisements in all media platforms<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":5873,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5872","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}