India Promotion Tender

Geographical Indications GIs are registered as per the provisions of the Geographical Indications of Goods Registration Protection Act 1999. As on 24.12.2018 330 GIs have been registered. The Government has undertaken several steps for promotion of Indian products registered as GIs like participation in trade fairs and other events to promote and create awareness on GIs and increase the sales of GI products promotion of GIs through social media involving State governments and Union Territory administration and other relevant organizations for facilitation of GI producers.Authorized Users are registered as per the provisions of Geographical Indications of Goods Registration Protection Act 1999. Till 30.11.2018 the GI Registry Chennai has received 4850 GI authorized user applications out of which 3607 GI authorized users have been registered. The remaining 1243 pending applications have already been examined and report issued to the applicants to remedy deficiencies which include providing supporting documents and complete applicant details.In order to spread awareness for registration of GI authorised users awareness programmes are conducted for concerned stakeholders at various places in the country.The processing of an application for registering a geographical indication for any goods involves issuing of a preliminary examination report to remedy deficiencies in the application if any. Thereafter a consultative group comprising of subject experts is constituted to evaluate and ascertain the correctness of the particulars furnished in the application and its supporting documents. Based on the recommendations by the consultative group an examination report is issued to the applicant. After necessary compliances to conditions and removal of objections if any the application is accepted and published for public to file opposition if any within the stipulated period. If no opposition is received or if it is disposed off in favour of the applicant the GI is registered.In the case of an application for registration as authorized user it is examined and deficiencies if any communicated to the applicant. Once these are removed the application is registered.The onus of removing the deficiencies and complying with the conditions lies with the applicant the time taken for which may delay the disposal of the application. The online system of filing GI applications is operational since March 2015. However examination of the application is done offline. There is no proposal to make the system of examination online.