LEGAL METROLOGY

Information of Legal Metrology Department for update in District Portal

1. Brief note about the Legal Metrology department :

         Ensuring Metrological Accuracy of Weights & Measures used in any transactions for protection is the primary duty of the department. To accomplish this aim, the Department is enforcing various provisions of Legal Metrology Act, 2009 and Rules made there under. The department is committed for consumer protection.

         The foremost duty of the Department of Legal Metrology is to build confidence in the consumers and to make the uniformity of the standards, in accordance with the International System of Units (SI). The noble and bounden duty of the Department of legal Metrology is to project and to protect the interest of the people by providing actual assistance and services of Legal Metrology and to ensure the correctness in all sorts of weighments and measurements particularly related to the commercial transactions.

2. Activities of the Legal Metrology Department: 

• Consumer gets his/her money’s worth
• No less, No more but Just exact
• Only verified and stamped weights and measures are
• Used by the traders in all transactions.
• Only properly verified and stamped dispensing units are
• Used in petrol pumps.
• Only properly verified and stamped Weigh Bridges are to be used.
• Net contents in packaged commodities should be as
•  Declared on each package.
• Trader should not sell at excess price than declared on the
•  Prepackaged commodities.
• Trader should not indulge in short weighing and measuring of any item.
• Trader should not indulge in receiving excess commodities (cotton, Paddy, Chilli, and other farm produces)

         The Department of Legal Metrology is engaged in regulating use of correct weighing and measuring instruments in production, trade and commerce to ensure that exact weight, measure and number of any commodity is provided to any customer as contracted for, or paid for by him. It also safeguards consumer’s interest by ensuring mandatory declarations on packaged commodities.

       The Department carries out regular/surprise inspections in markets, fair price shops, petrol pumps, weigh bridges, gas agencies and other public outlets to check whether measuring and weighing units bear valid verification stamp and deliver correct weight, measure or volume of commodities to consumers. Action is taken for defective and non-standard weights and measures, as per the relevant laws of Legal Metrology Act 2009.

3. Schemes implemented under the Legal Metrology Department.

            -NIL-

     4.Statical Information:

      Office of the District Legal Metrology Officer report for the year 2023-24

        Office of the District Legal Metrology Officer report for the year 2024-25

         Office of the Inspector Legal Metrology, Bhadrachalam report for the year 2023-24

     Office of the Inspector Legal Metrology, Bhadrachalam report for the year 2024-25

      Staff & Contact Details

     District Legal Metrology Officer (ILM)

     Bhadradri Kothagudem