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SAMBA, FEBRUARY 10: No doubts since the Anuradha Gupta has taken the charge of Legal Metrology Department, the officers has come in action, otherwise they were sleeping to act & today LMD Unit Samba, on the instructions of Controller Legal Metrology Anuradha Gupta, conducted a comprehensive inspection drive to ascertain the adherence to mandatory labeling details on the industrial products brought from outside Jammu and Kashmir.
During the inspection, a case of misleading net quantity declaration on a pre-packaged lubricant was detected.
Upon further inquiry, it was established that a Haryana-based industrial lubricant manufacturer was supplying critical industrial products without declaring net contents, unit sale prices, and other mandatory labeling details.
In some instances, the company mentioned approximate weights, which could not be verified, violating the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, and the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
Taking strict action, the Legal Metrology Department registered a case and issued a notice to the defaulting company. In response, the company admitted to the violations and applied for departmental compounding, a legal remedy under the Act.
The case was compounded, and a penalty of ₹1 Lakh was imposed. The company assured immediate compliance with packaging and net content declaration requirements as per legal provisions.
As per the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, manufacturers, packers, importers, suppliers, and sellers are legally bound to ensure that consumers receive the exact quantity for which they are paying.
Mandatory labeling requirements include Exact Net Quantity, Maximum Retail Price (MRP), Unit Sale Price (USP), Manufacturer/Packer/Importer Details, Country of Origin (for imported products) Customer Care Information (name, address, contact number, email, etc.)
The Legal Metrology Department has urged consumers to remain alert and vigilant while making purchases and report any grievances related to misleading product labeling to the Legal Metrology Department, J&K, for swift redressal.
But, it does not only serve the purpose, there is lot to do like crackdown on shopkeeper who are till day not displayed rate lists of daily use items like fruits, vegetable, meat shops etc etc, even on private hospitals & nursing homes, which had not displayed various treatment rates & loot patients of their choice.
It is also the need of the day to act on Chemist Shops, which are displaying 25 to 40% less, which will connect to big crackdown on manufacturing firms for higher printing of rates , which make a chain to loot innocents.
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