NEW DELHI: The Department of Consumer Affairs has notified significant amendments to the Legal Metrology (Government Approved Test Centre) Rules, 2013. These amendments mark a major milestone in expanding India’s verification infrastructure for weights and measures, ensuring transparency, accuracy, and fairness in trade, an official statement said on Thursday.
The revised rules aim to strengthen consumer protection, promote ease of doing business and align India’s system of verification with international best practices, according to the official statement.
The amended rules significantly broaden the scope of Government Approved Test Centres (GATCs) to cover 18 categories of weighing and measuring instruments, including water meters, energy meters, gas meters, clinical thermometers, moisture meters, flow meters, sphygmomanometers, and non-automatic weighing instruments.