The businesses have been requested to answer to the notices inside 15 days.
The federal government on Friday issued notices to Flipkart, Amazon and different ecommerce firms for not mandatorily displaying data, together with nation of origin, on merchandise offered on their platforms.
The notices have been issued by the Division of Shopper Affairs, Ministry of Shopper Affairs, Meals and Public Distribution.
Other than Amazon and Flipkart, notices have additionally been despatched to different ecommerce gamers, sources stated.
The businesses have been requested to answer to the notices inside 15 days.
“It has been introduced into discover that a number of the e-commerce entities usually are not displaying the obligatory declaration on digital platforms required underneath the Authorized Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Guidelines, 2011,” stated one of many equally worded notices.
In line with the notices despatched to Flipkart India Pvt Ltd and Amazon Growth Centre India Pvt Ltd, they’re e-commerce entities and due to this fact, have to make sure that all obligatory declarations needs to be displayed on the digital and digital community used for ecommerce transactions.
The 2 firms, as per the notices, haven’t supplied the obligatory declaration and contravene the Act.
