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There is a Film Censor Board, but which authority monitors the advertisements in the press, and TV media, and takes action against unsafe advertisements, which children might imitate, with the risk of injury?
I noticed an advertisement on BTV in which two children run to retrieve a floating umbrella stuck on a tree, with the mother watching anxiously. Both climb up the tree, and one child floats down to earth holding the open umbrella (parachuting).
The readers hardly see any press report on deterrent action on undesirable advertisements; (viz. jobs and studies abroad how to judge which are genuine?).
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