India is currently an observer to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (hereinafter referred to as "GPA"). Does India intend to accede to the GPA in the near future? If so, does India have any specific time line in view for accession?
Reply: Issue of India commencing accession to GPA is under examination. At present, any commitment on this issue is not feasible.
The Secretariat report mentions that India is making efforts to build public awareness to facilitate the enforcement of IPR. Japan would like India to show the effects of the public awareness activities by providing data, if any, for example the results of the public questionnaires.
Reply: Since 2006 07 till March 2011, 505 awareness programmes were conducted and approximately 47000 people participated in these programmes.
