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The '''Directorate of Advertising and Visual Publicity''' ('''DAVP''') is the nodal agency of the [[Government of India]] for advertising by various Ministries and organisations of Government of India, including public sector undertakings and autonomous bodies. At the time of the [[Second World War]], the Government of India asked the leading advertisement agencies to form a consortium and set up a publicity unit in [[Shimla]] to handle war propaganda, tackle rumour mongering, put out messages about black-outs and handle recruitment to the armed forces. When the war ended, this consortium was converted into its present form. It was established in 1955 and has its headquarters in [[Delhi]] and regional offices in [[Bangalore]] and [[Guwahati]]. Its work is further facilitated by two regional distribution centres at [[Kolkata]] and [[Chennai]]. The Directorate includes 4 Campaign wings, an advertising wing for print, Audio-Visual (AV) wing, New Media & Personal Media wing, exhibition wing, mass mailing wing, outdoor publicity wing, research wing, distribution wing and language wing in addition to an audio visual publicity cell.

==External links==
*{{Official|http://www.davp.nic.in/}}

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[[Category:Advertising agencies of India]]
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>BrownHairedGirl at 13:43, 3 April 2021