Name: Consumer Awareness in India
Uploaded: 2019-07-19
Duration: 4 min 32 s
Description: How Companies and Sellers exploit unaware and vulnerable consumers and what steps the government has taken to prevent such exploitation.

Question

Give information about ISI, ECO, FPO, AGMARK.

Accepted Answer

ISI- The Indian Government had established the Indian Standards Institute (ISI) in $1947$ to regulate the quality of industrial products. Since, $1986$ , it is called as Bureau of Indian Standards. It awards ISI marks to the goods that meet the prescribed standards. The BIS allows the use of ISI marks on chemicals, rubber products, textiles, electronic goods, pesticides, and insecticides.

AGMARK- The practice of awarding AGMARK to the horticulture, farm, and animal products was started in $1937$ . It is awarded by the Directorate of Marketing and Intelligence- (DMI), within the Ministry of Agriculture Complaints regarding the quality of any good can be lodged with the regional office of BIS.

ECO-.This mark is given for paper, detergents, lubricants, packing material, battery, cosmetics, leather, and plastic products.

FPO- This mark is used for the fruits, squash, fruit juices, and vegetables.

Give information about ISI, ECO, FPO, AGMARK.

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