The government has imposed a penalty on e-commerce major Amazon for not displaying mandatory information, including the country of origin, of products sold on its platform, according to an official order.
Two major e-commerce firms may end up paying Rs 25,000 as fine, if they are found violating the packaging norms for not mentioning the country of origin on products for sale displayed on their platforms.
Legal Metrology Department (LMD) Kishtwar has booked seven traders for violation of rules across the district. The erring traders were booked for defective weighing instruments, less quantity in packages against declared value and lack of proper declarations on pre-packaged commodities. A composition sum of Rs 36,000 (Thirty six thousand only) was recovered from the violators. The market checking was conducted under the supervision of Joint Controller LMD Jammu at Kishtwar town, Shashoo Padder,
The undersigned is directed to refer to the above-mentioned subject and to state that due to the prevalent condition of COVID-19, leading to the lockdown of the whole country the manufacturing activities were stopped. Consequently, the inventory of packaging material/wrapper with the pre-printed date of manufacturing could not be exhausted within the time limit prescribed under the Rules.
The Legal Metrology Department (LMD) Friday revealed that it has realized a fine of Rs 3.5 lakh from defaulters and has booked 236 erring traders during the month of August, 2020 alone. The department has conducted 2276 market inspections through every nook and corner of the valley and poultry-sellers, mutton dealers, package-sellers and drug-stores were booked and penalized for violating legal metrology
Hyderabad: Some chicken traders in the old city are allegedly cheating customers by manipulating electronic weighing machines using remote controls, if the recently formed association of chicken shops is to be believed. “Few chicken shops in the city are baiting customers with low prices. Truth is that they are using remote controls to manipulate the electronic weighing scale. As a result, the customer pays for one kilogram when he is actually given only around 650 grams,” said Mohammed A
Have you ever been charged extra for ‘cooling,’ over and above the price listed on the product? It is a daily annoyance that thousands of Indians face every day, with shopkeepers apparently confident that they will not face any action for these patently illegal actions. Perhaps next time you can remind them of this case, when such casual overcharging got some serious repercussions. On 20 August this year, the District Commissioner Disputes Redressal Forum directed Mumbai-based Shagun Veg
The Union industry department has asked e-commerce companies to tag ‘country of origin’ on all items on their platforms by 30 September, in what could turn out to be a race against time for the online retailers. “We have asked e-commerce players to complete the exercise by 30 September," an official at the Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade (DPIIT) said on condition of anonymity. Initially, the government was keen on a 1 August deadline, but the move was opposed by r
NEW DELHI: Nearly 371 categories of items such as toys, steel bars, steel tubes, consumer electronics, telecom items, heavy machinery, paper, rubber articles and glass which are largely imported from countries such as China would be brought under the mandatory Indian Standards (IS) regime by next March. This will put a curb on the import of sub-standard items. The commerce ministry had identified these items last year. Officials said the process has been expedited to meet the requirement under t
A week after Amazon asked sellers to display the country of origin of products listed on its site, rival Flipkart has also asked sellers to comply, adding that this will allow customers to make an 'informed decision'. In an email sent to the sellers on July 21, Flipkart said, "Legal Metrology Amendment Rules, 2017 mandates every imported product listed on an e-commerce platform to hav
BENGALURU: The Department of Food and Civil Supplies has cancelled the licences of 186 fair price shops (ration shops) since April for irregularities such as charging people for free grains, and is taking action against other errant owners. Officials of the Food and Civil Supplies and Legal Metrology departments have been keeping a close watch on 19,000 fair price shops in Karnataka si
Legal Metrology Department, Rajouri today imposed a fine of Rs.1 lakh on a manufacturer of a Floor Tiles for launching non-standard packs, violating Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules and breaching trust of consumers on false pretexts ignoring right of consumers to know the quality, potency and other manufacturing details of products purchased from the open market. Assistant
The Consumer Protection Act, 2019 comes into force on Monday, replacing the more than 3-decade old Consumer Protection Act 1986. The new law aims to enforce and protect the rights of consumers, and provide an effective mechanism to address consumer grievances. The Consumer Protection Bill, 2019 was introduced in the Upper House of Parliament by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan, on July 8, 2019. It was passed by the Lok Sabha on July 30, 2019 and R
NEW DELHI: Selling packaged items at more than the maximum retail price (MRP) would attract Rs 5,000 to Rs 15,000 fine for the first offence and up to Rs 1 lakh for a repeat offence, the consumer affairs ministry has proposed while seeking to replace jail terms with stiff monetary penalties. The measures are part of the overhauling of the Legal Metrology Act and the ministry has propo
Amazon has asked all sellers on its platform to start displaying the country of origin detail for all new and existing product listings after the government’s pressure on e-commerce companies to comply with the legal metrology rules. CNBC-TV 18 had last week reported that e-commerce companies had begun working with sellers to ensure these details are updated. E-commerce companies are ma
E-commerce companies such as Amazon, Flipkart, Snapdeal and Paytm have started building tech platforms to ensure that the 'country of origin' of all products is clearly listed on their platform so that consumers can make informed decisions. Industry insiders said this was a huge task which included gathering data and feeding it to e-commerce marketplaces. There are a total of at least 600 million products listed on just four platforms, which include Amazon,
TAWANG, Jun 5: Twelve traders here were booked for indulging in unfair trade practices during a joint inspection conducted by the town magistrate and officials of the legal metrology & consumer affairs (LMCA) department on Thursday. While five traders in the main market were booked for selling packaged commodities without the mandatory information, two were booked for smudging MRPs. They have been booked
NAHARLAGUN, May 28: A total of 12 traders were booked under various provisions of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 by teams of the legal metrology and consumer affairs (LMCA) officers from different parts of three districts on Thursday. In Tezu, a team of the LMCA officers, led by zonal deputy controller Minte Siga and assistant controller SC Singpho inspected Tezu market and booked eight shopkeepers for violation of provisions under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011. The shopk
Chandigarh, May 28 (UNI) Cracking a whip on shopkeepers charging more than MRP of essentials goods, Punjab Consumer Affairs department has conducted state wide checkings and a total of 1,325 Shops and Chemist Shops have been raided throughout the state. Stating this here on Thursday, Consumer Affairs and Civil Supplies Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu said the Legal Metrology department has imposed penalties
ITANAGAR, May 19: The West Kameng district market monitoring team headed by SDO Sang Khandu conducted a surprise inspection at Bomdila market on Tuesday and booked two traders for violation of the Legal Metrology (packaged Commodities Rules), 2011. The erring traders were displaying packaged commodities for sale with additional price tags in violation of the packaged commodities rules. SDO Khandu s
Visakhapatnam: Legal metrology personnel appealed to consumers to become aware of cheating at many meat shops in Anakapalle in Vizag district. Many meat tradershave been putting electronic weighing machines in litre mode instead of grams mode, which leads to lesser weight of meat bought by consumers. Officials from the legal metrology department and Greater Visakhapatnam Municipal Corporation raided meat shops at various places in Anakapalle Town and registered eight cases after they found th
While the coronavirus outbreak has led to a surge in demand for N-95 masks and personal protective equipment (PPE), reports of the safety gear being sold at exorbitant rates due to lack of price sealing have also been doing the rounds. Taking cognisance of multiple complaints, Maharashtra Food and Drugs Administration (FDA) has written to the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), requesting the body to fix the prices of N-95 masks and PPE kits. The state FDA is seemingly unable to
SEPPA, May 10: Twelve shops here in East Kameng district were sealed by the district administration for selling commodities beyond the maximum retail price (MRP). A joint team of officials from the district administration and members of the East Kameng Chamber of Commerce and Industry, led by ADC Dahey Sangno raided several shops in the township on Saturday, during which the shops were fund to be selling cold drinks above the MRP in violation of the Legal Metrology Act. (DIPRO) Source:
Several sectors including fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG), pharmaceutical, packaged food among others are expected benefited due to this. Under the laws, in normal circumstances, relabelling or putting stickers on earlier dates are not permitted. This will be applicable to those manufacturers or packers who have to declare the month and year of manufacturing/packing under the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rule, 2011. MUMBAI: The government has allowed companies to use pre-printed pa
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The penalty yielded by the legal metrology department in its raids during lockdown has risen to `33.72 lakh so far. A total of 10,138 inspections have been held and 1,108 shops have been booked. As many as 40 cases were registered for overcharging of masks and 339 cases
VIJAYAWADA: At a time when people are facing a hard time due to the ongoing lockdown, soaring prices of essential commodities have doubled their woes. People are forced to purchase commodities at whatever prices fixed by the retailers who are charging anything between Rs 10 and Rs 20 in excess of the MRP on everything in the city markets. The authorities, however, claim they are keeping a strict vigil to prevent profiteering by the traders and cases have been filed against a few of them for viol
VIJAYAWADA: One and all thought that the prices of essential commodities, vegetables, sanitisers and other products will be increased during the lockdown period, but the prices remained more or less the same in the market, thanks to the timely intervention of the officials of the Legal Metrology Department. After the government involved the Legal Metrology Department in the effective implementation of the Essential Commodities Act, officials, led by Controller and Inspector General of Police
ITANAGAR, Apr 13: Capital Complex Deputy Commissioner Komkar Dulom has appealed to the residents of the capital region, especially the trading community, to cooperate with the administration and not take undue advantage of the lockdown. The DC made the appeal after a wholesale dealer was booked for violating provisions of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and the Legal Metrology (PC) Rul
MAPUSA: The legal metrology department booked two grocery vendors, one from Mapusa and the other from Porvorim, for overcharging packaged oil and using unverified weighing instrument. Inspections were conducted by a team of metrology department on Sunday after receiving complaint against the two grocery vendors for overcharging packaged commodities and using invalid weighing instrument. A general store
NAHARLAGUN, Apr 11: Officers from the capital district administration, along with enforcement officers of the legal metrology & consumer affairs (LMCA) department, booked three traders for various violations during a surprise inspection of trading premises of wholesale and retail traders here. The traders were caught overpricing water bottles, cold drinks, etc, and were booked for violation of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, and the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011. Of
KOCHI: After the central and state governments included masks, sanitisers and bottled water in the essential commodity category after Covid-19 outbreak, the Legal Metrology Department is on its toes to prevent traders from charging more on these items. The department’s central zone which has jurisdiction in central Kerala has registered 83 cases from March 17 to April 6 with regard to such violations. The government had capped the maximum retail price of hand sanitisers at `100 per 200 ml b
The market checking teams of Legal Metrology Department conducted 392 inspections of the traders dealing with the retail sale of vegetables, Kiryana, Sanitizers and Masks in various districts of the Valley. During the inspection 19 business outlets were found violating the provisions of Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and Packaged Commodity Rules, 2011. The traders were found overcharging for Masks, Sanitizers, L. P. G, Vegetables and other essential commodities and sale of packaged commodities in
Vijayawada: Taking advantage of the high demand for red meat and chicken, traders have begun cheating customers by manipulating their weighing machines. This came to light after officials of the legal metrology department conducted raids across the state, including over 20 shops in Visakhapatnam It was found that a few meat traders were setting the unit to litre in thei
Legal Metrology Department conducted 10 surprise inspections at grocery shops across the city and initiated six prosecution actions against defaulting retailers and manufacturing companies totaling more than Rs 1 lakh. Acting swiftly on complaints of overpricing in Old Delhi areas, Food and Civil Supplies Minister Imran Hussain had sent enforcement teams of Legal Metrology Department to visit the area
Chandigarh, Apr 1 (UNI) Food Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu on Wednesday warned that stringent actions against people indulging in overpricing of essential commodities during the lockdown imposed due to outbreak of COVID-19. Mr Ashu ordered to intensify the ongoing state-wise raids to check the problem of over pricing and also directed all the field officers to ensure that the sale of essential commodities must be done strictly at the MRP prices or below MRP
Panaji (Goa) [India], Mar 31 (ANI): The Goa government has constituted a special team to verify the stock from the godowns of suppliers and wholesalers in the state, to check any possible hoarding or black marketing of essential supplies amid nationwide lockdown. "The state government has constituted a special team of inspector of Civil Supplies, Commercial Tax and Legal Metrology t
NEW DELHI: The government on Wednesday notified 12 electronic products, including external hard drive, wireless headphone and earphones, television other than plasma, LCD and LED TV sets, that would require mandatory registration under the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) before sale in the country. The government in the notification for "Addition of product c
PONDA: Alleging that taking advantage of the lockdown and the consequent rush for food, grocery shops and vegetable vendors are selling their commodities at exorbitant prices, Ponda residents have demanded raids on such traders. A number of residents in Ponda complained that since the start of the lockdown eight days ago, there is a severe shortage of essential commodities in the town. This has caused panic among people; fearing that they might go hungry, people rush to purchase food items wh
Panaji: Teams of inspectors from the department of civil supplies and consumer affairs, commercial tax and legal metrology began inspecting godowns of suppliers and wholesalers on Tuesday to ensure that there was no hoarding and to ascertain reasons for many keeping their shutters down. The teams of three for each taluka led by the inspectors from the civil supplies department visited several wholesalers and advised them to keep their business running and avoid hoarding. “We inspected th
In a bid to ensure opening of grocery stores 24×7, the department of civil supplies and consumer affairs constituted a special team to check no retail stores remain closed and to physically open and verify the stock from the godowns of suppliers / wholesalers to curb the practice of hoarding. The three members special team comprising of Inspector of Civil Supplies, Commercial tax and Legal Metrology have been authorized to take action against any hoarding under the Prevention of Black mar
Hyderabad: Telangana Chief Minister K Chandrashekhar Rao announced a total lockdown of the State to fight dreaded coronavirus. “Essential services like milk and vegetables will be exempted but only one person from each family would be allowed to shop for these essentials,” he said. Benefitting the opportunity of lockdown, the shops owners are selling the good at higher prices. According to a siasat’s video, Civil Supplies officials, GHMC, legal metrology officials and task force s
THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The capital is facing a severe shortage of masks. While traders said many medical shops have run out of stock due to the lockdown, officials suspect some are hoarding masks so as to inflate its price. District Collector K Gopalakrishnan has convened a meeting of chemists and druggists, the drug control department and legal metrology department to discuss the issue.
The Jammu District Deputy Commissioner on Friday said that movement passes related to the supply of groceries and essential commodities will be routed through Deputy Director of Legal Metrology in view of the nationwide lockdown due to coronavirus outbreak. "In Jammu district, movement passes related to the supply of groceries and essential commodities will be routed through Deputy Director of Legal Metr
Mysuru: Two trucks, which took off from Bengaluru and Coimbatore on Tuesday morning carrying the increasingly elusive masks and hand sanitisers, failed to reach Mysuru within the scheduled time. The consignment is expected to considerably ease the shortage of these two items which were declared as essential commodities following the outbreak of Covid-19. The two vehicles are believed to be stuck as the state and district borders are sealed as part of the measures to check the spread of coronavir
PANJIM: The government, in a notice, has warned the stakeholders against hoarding of essential commodities like masks, hand sanitizers; nor sell at a price higher than printed on the packet or commodity. In case any hoarding or black marketing of this products/commodities are noticed/reported strict action under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 and/or any other relevant Acts/Rules in force will be initiated against the defaulters during the aforesaid period. The wholesalers and retailers/pha
The consumer affairs ministry has asked states to distribute hygiene products such as hand sanitizers and face masks through ration shops at fair prices and easy availability. Consumer affairs secretary Pawan Agarwal, while taking a review meeting with states over video conference, said that the industry representatives have shown interest in distributing such hygiene products at lower prices through the fair price shops. “Few states have started distributing these items through public distrib
Mysuru, March 21:- Acting on a tip-off, Assistant controlling officer of Legal Metrology Department KM Mahadevaswamy and staff carried out a raid and arrested a person who was manufacturing and selling fake hand sanitisers. They have seized 100 bottles of hand sanitiser and registered a complaint. Drug control officer B P Arun and team is investigating the issue. They have said that manufacturing and
Under the Essential Commodities Act, states can consult with manufacturers and ask them to increase the production capacity of these goods. The Government of India notified Masks and Hand Sanitizers under the Essential Commodities Act, 1955 by June 30, 2020. The government has made this declaration because most of the vendors have said that these items have gone out of stock. The government has to take this step because of the current outbreaks of Covid-19 (Coronavirus) in India. The gover
SAMBA, Mar 14: Continuing its efforts to protect gullible consumers from unfair trade practices adopted by schools and stationery shops, Legal Metrology Department realised a fine of Rs 75000 from such defaulters in district Samba during an inspection today. The inspection was conducted on the directions of Deputy Commissioner, Samba, Rohit Khajuria. The team conducted surprise raids on various stationery shops in district Samba and in the drive booked various traders for selling uniforms
In a major crackdown on sale of spurious hand sanitisers and sale of masks at elevated price, three government agencies have arrested three people and registered offence against 21 establishments. Dattawadi cops, Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and legal metrology department (LMO) took action after massive scrutiny based on instructions relayed by Deepak Mhaisekar, divisional collector of Pune.
KOCHI: Case against traders for selling masks and Sanitisers at an exorbitant price in the wake of Covid-19 threat, the Legal Metrology Department has intensified inspection on shops that sell the items. In all, 16 cases were registered in Central Kerala, including Ernakulam, Thrissur, Palakkad and Idukki districts. Complaints are pouring in from several parts of Kochi regarding the high price charged for masks and sanitizers.
The three-decades-old Consumer Protection Act (CPA) has been overhauled and a new Act is in place. In this background, the theme of last year’s National Consumer Day (December 24) was chosen as ‘The CPA 2019 - A turning point for Indian Consumers’. If the newly added features in the CPA 2019 like a proposal to establish the Consumer Protection Authority, the introduction of new concepts like mediation, e-commerce and product liability, if implemented, will go a long way in insulating th
Move will benefit people, says Controller The Department of Legal Metrology (DLM) which is responsible for enforcement of the Legal Metrology Acts and rules wants to take up the aspect of food safety in the interest of consumers in the State. In this regard, DLM has made a proposal of a merger of the food safety wing with it to the State government recently and is awaiting a response. Explaining why such a proposal has been made,
Compulsory Registration Scheme came into being in 2012 by the Department of Electronics and Information Technology along with the Bureau of Indian Standards. Introduction of Compulsory Registration Scheme made it a compulsion for producers to get their products registered before introducing them in the market. Benefits of engaging Bureau of Indian Standards consulting firm: Bureau of Indian Standards Registration is important for all the electronic product
Legal Metrology certificate is required to sell, distribute packaged goods like consumer products, food products, or export products, etc. The registration with the metrology department of consumer affairs has been made compulsory for the seller, producer, dealers, and distributors and so on. ASC’s Legal Metrology consultants will guide you through on what documentation shall be done
In view of the rising number of special trade fairs during Onam, the Legal Metrology Department in Kozhikode has launched a drive to track the use of altered weights and measures. The Department has stepped up surprise inspections in supermarkets and other shops following a directive by the Collector. Customers have been asked to keep an eye on fraudulent sales. Only those weights and measures certified by
Food and Consumer Affairs Ministry has decided to ban single-use plastic in its various departments as well as the public sector units under its administration from September 15. The decision was taken at a meeting held by Union Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan. Paswan announced "a blanket ban on all types of single use plastic products" in the ministry as well as PSUs, including Food Corporation o
KOCHI: With the Onam shopping rush picking up pace in Kochi, the Legal Metrology Department is planning to launch a special drive from Wednesday to prevent consumers from getting duped by traders. The week-long drive will last till September 10. Often, during Onam, traders are found overcharging consumers and selling essential goods without the necessary declaration and MRP, said officials. Cases of variations in products’ weight and tampering with weighing machines is also reported, they said
New Delhi: India is set to impose a nationwide ban on plastic bags, cups and straws on October 2, officials said, in its most sweeping measure yet to stamp out single-use plastics from cities and villages that rank among the world's most polluted. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, who is leading efforts to scrap such plastics by 2022, is set to launch the campaign with a ban on as many as six items on October 2, the birth anniversary of independence leader Mahatma Gandhi, two off
Visakhapatnam: Around 20 cases were registered by the legal metrology department (LMD), Visakhapatnam, during its two-day inspection on water plants and retail dealers of packaged drinking water in and around the city. Cases were registered due to absence of statutory mandatory declarations that are supposed be printed on the package under the legal metrology (PC) Rule 2011. The raids were conducted in Visakhapatnam, Gajuwaka, Pendurthi, Kasimkota, Elamanchili, Anakapalli, Na
What is BIS Certification? Process of BIS Certification is a means for offering third party guarantee of quality, safety and dependability of products to the consumer. It is voluntary and the Government of India has made this compulsory for certain products taking into concern public health. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) BIS Certificate is provided in India by Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). The National Standards Body has been efficacious
Legal Metrology is a part of the Department of Consumer Affairs which came into practice in 2009 and deals with the monitoring and regulation of manufacturing, import, and business of weighing, measuring instruments and devices and legal Metrology certification. ASC assists manufacturers and importers of weighing and measuring instruments and devices to obtain appropriate licenses and approvals for setting up their company and marketing their products. The Legal Metrology Department falls under
The legal metrology department has sent a notice to Scoops ice creams after city resident Akshay Kumar was charged more than the MRP (maximum retail price) for an ice cream he bought at Tank Bund from a tricycle ice-cream seller, who was an authorized vendor of Scoops. Mr Kumar told Deccan Chronicle that this has become routine practice and tricycle ice-cream sellers take more than the MRP, and even tamper with the MRP and sell th
In a new ruling, it has been made compulsory for restaurants to display food safety boards on their premises by October 15, 2018. Failing to do so will lead to loss of license for the restaurant. The Food Safety and Standards Authority has announced this move in an effort to protect consumers and also ensure that restaurants are taking consumer protection seriously. The new rule is applicable on existing restaurants as well as those who have applied for licenses. In a confirmation of the new r
Similar commodities, different prices: Find out why We have all noticed that the price of identical commodities vastly differs depending on the place where it is being sold. The question now arises, can companies sell identical pre-packaged properties at different prices? The simple and uncomplicated answer is no. As per the amendments introduced to Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011, and effective from January 1, 2018, it is mandatory that dual MRPs cannot ap
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