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MOTORINDIA
l
February 2012
ACMA
Asli-Naqli
pavilion drive
against spurious spares
The showground at Auto Expo
2012 had the
Asli-Naqli
pavilion,
an initiative by the Automotive
Component Manufacturers Asso-
ciation of India (ACMA) which
addressed the concerns and chal-
lenges posed by fake auto parts.
A total of 16 leading component
manufacturers participated in the
show to help the masses realize the
importance of using genuine prod-
ucts.
Mr.
Soumitra
Bhattacharya,
Chairman of the Consumer Affairs
Committee & Anti-Counterfeiting
Committee of ACMA, explained the
Asli-Naqli
initiative in an informal
chat with
Motorindia.
The Indian component market in
2010-11 is estimated at Rs. 33,000
crores. It is expected to go up to Rs.
40,000 crores by 2014 and to Rs.
60,000 crores by 2020. It is estimat-
ed that one-third of the auto spares
auto expo 2012
Mr. Soumitra Bhattacharya, Chairman of the Consumer Affairs Committee & Anti-Counterfeiting
Committee, ACMA and Mr. Arvind Kapur, ACMA President (third and fourth from left respectively),
with their team at the Asli-Naqli pavilion
The Asli-Naqli show
aimed to create aware-
ness against counterfeits
and brought out the dif-
ference between genuine
and fake products to pro-
mote the industry’s fight
against counterfeits.