Govt calls meeting next week on mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery

The Consumer Affairs Ministry will on February 28 hold a meeting with stakeholders to discuss making hallmarking of gold jewellery mandatory, following up on an order it issued in June 2018.

Consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan will chair the meeting to discuss the order the government wants to notify before Lok Sabha elections are announced, said sources.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) had a few months back warned jewellers not use its logo without registration, prodding them to adapt to mandatory hallmarking. In Mumbai, jewellers sell only hallmarked jewellery.

The draft notification circulated by the ministry and BIS