The Mysuru district Tobacco Control Cell has taken objection to the distribution of laptops sponsored by a cigarette manufacturing company at a recent programme organised by Backward Classes Research Students Forum of the University of Mysore.
The laptops were distributed to about 30 research studentsat the programme attended by a host of dignitaries including Mysuru MP Pratap Simha and University Vice-Chancellor G. Hemantha Kumar on the Manasagangothri campus.
Soon after the programme, a delegation of the tobacco control cell called on University Registrar R. Shivappa at the latter’s office and sought to draw his attention to the reported violation of not only Article 5.3 of World Health Organisation’s Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) to which India is also a signatory, but also Section 5 of the Cigarettes and Other Tobacco Products Act (COTPA) 2003.
