Kurnool District Collector Dr A Siri has cautioned traders and commission agents involved in cotton procurement that any malpractice in weighing procedures will attract strict legal consequences. She stated that the district administration is committed to ensuring fair practices in cotton trading and will not tolerate any attempt to deceive farmers through manipulation of weighing machines. In a press release on Sunday, the Collector has stated that the Legal Metrology Depart

Commissioner Secretary, Food Civil Supplies & Consumer Affairs (FCS&CA), Saurabh Bhagat, today conducted a comprehensive inspection of the Legal Metrology Department’s laboratories and infrastructure at Transport Nagar, Narwal, Jammu. He reviewed laboratory functioning and ongoing reforms aimed at strengthening consumer protection mechanisms across the Union Territory. Saurabh Bhagat inspecting Legal Metrology labs in Jammu on Sunday. During the inspection, the Commissioner S

The Department of Consumer Affairs has proposed an amendment to make it mandatory for e-commerce platforms to provide searchable and sortable filters based on the ‘Country of Origin’ for packaged commodities sold online. The Draft Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) (Second) Amendment Rules, 2025, issued on Monday, aim to enhance consumer empowerment and transparency in online shopping. The proposed change will enable consumers to identify the origin of products easily and

An awareness programme under the theme “Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection: The Journey Towards Viksit Bharat 2047”, was held on November 7, at Indoor Stadium, St. Joseph’s College (SJC), Jakhama. The programme was organised by department of Commerce SJC in collaboration with department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Protection, Nagaland, with the aim at educating students on consumer rights, legal metrology, and importance of informed consumerism for a progressive India. A

The Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Amendment Rules, 2025 quietly unplugged every medical-device package from the empire of tape-measures, type-heights and width-to-height ratios that have governed ordinary consumer packs for the past fourteen years. The one-page notification brings to an end a regulatory tug-of-war that manufacturers, importers and even field inspectors had faced ever since the Medical Devices Rules, 2017 came into force under the Drugs and Cosmetics

"No person can be charged for an offence relating to weight or measure falling under Chapter XIII of IPC in view of the provisions of the Legal Metrology Act" – Allahabad High Court clarifying the legal interplay between the Indian Penal Code and the Legal Metrology Act, 2009. In an application filed under Section 482 of the Criminal Procedure Code seeking quashing of the charge sheet and summoning order in a fuel dispensing fraud case, the High Court partly allowed the appli

The National Measurement Institute (NMI) celebrates 7 decades of international collaboration in legal metrology and release of its...

The Department of Consumer Affairs has issued a notice inviting public comments on a draft amendment to the Legal Metrology (Approval of...

New Delhi, September 24, 2025  – The Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution,...

India's Department of Consumer Affairs on Tuesday allowed manufacturers to revise MRP on unsold stock due to GST rate revision. The move...

The Delhi government is poised to raise penalties for violations of laid down guidelines against the use of non-standard weights and...

The Department of Legal Metrology and Consumer Protection (LM&CP), Tuensang, organized a consumer awareness program on Thursday under the...

A delegation of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry (CCI) Jammu, led by its President Arun Gupta, today called on the Controller Legal...

Acting swiftly on the directions of Controller Legal Metrology Department, Rajinder Singh Tara, the teams of Legal Metrology Department...

The days when a telephone was just a device to make phone calls are long gone. Nowadays, almost everybody has a smartphone with the...

Officials addressing the awareness programme on consumer rights held at the VDB Hall in Wokha on June 9. A one-day awareness programme on...

Officials from the Legal Metrology department carried out raids on e- commerce platforms at different locations in Salcete on Tuesday. In...

Activist and advocate  Napoleon Mawphniang has called for probe into anomalies in Legal Metrology  department and serious financial...

Decriminalised sections of Legal Metrology Act, 2009 would eliminate barriers, foster growth of businesses and help citizens and business...

To discuss and submit their suggestions concerning the upcoming Legal Metrology (Enforcement) Rules 2025 , a deputation of the Chamber of...