On 15 December 2025, UNESCO and the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), reinforcing their long-standing cooperation to advance metrology, capacity building in basic sciences, and the role of accurate measurement in sustainable development worldwide. The Memorandum was signed in Paris by Ms Lidia Brito, Assistant Director-General for Natural Sciences at UNESCO, and Mr Martin Milton, Director of the BIPM. It update

NAGAON: The All-India Weights and Measures Awareness Week was observed in Nagaon district from December 28 to January 3 by the Legal Metrology Department. District Development Commissioner Debajani Choudhury, who attended the programme, emphasized the importance of consumers remaining vigilant when buying or selling goods to avoid being cheated. She urged consumers to ensure that weights and measuring instruments—including weights, scales, liters, meters, and electronic scal

In an unusually tough stand on governance, Legal Metrology Minister Sanbor Shullai has given his department just 60 days to demonstrate real enforcement—after discovering that for over five decades, violations in weights and measures across Meghalaya have gone virtually unchecked. Chairing a state-level review meeting in Shillong, Shullai said he was “shocked and disappointed” to learn that, despite rampant irregularities in markets, fuel stations, weighbridges, and the trade

A working group under the high-level committee on non-financial regulatory reforms (HLC-NFRR) headed by former cabinet secretary and NITI Aayog member Rajiv Gauba has proposed to allow use of “customary and supplemental” units like feet, yards and dozen for weights and measures, which are not legally recognised under the current law. According to sources, the Working Group-6, under the HLC-NFRR has proposed amendments in the various Sections of the Legal Metrology Act-2009, t

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

The Office of Weights and Measures, National Legal Metrology Program (NLMP) is pleased to announce a new program called “Info...