By: Bhawana Anand
Last updated : December 05, 2017 6:53 pm
The state government would be presenting new policy guidelines on advertising on public service vehicles (PSVs) to a bench of the Delhi High Court in August. The Court had given the state government time until August 9.
Some auto unions in the capital city had filed a PIL against the Delhi Government’s policy guidelines on display of advertisements on PSVs, issued in August 2014, wherein a pre-censorship was introduced to weed out political ads from such media. The guidelines had placed curbs on ads containing political, ethnic, religious or sectarian content.
The guidelines also provided that advertisements cannot be displayed without prior approval of municipal bodies and would be allowed only on vehicles which have installed GPS/GPRS systems. That was subsequently challenged by the auto unions through a PIL.