ITANAGAR, Nov 6: A team of the Department of Legal Metrology & Consumer Affairs (LMCA), GoAP, ICR & Papum Pare District led by Dr Debia Tana, Asstt Controller-cum-District Consumer Protection Officer, and comprising Taw Tassar & Toyir Riba (Inspectors) and staffs of the department, along with APP and CRPF personnel carried out an inspection of several trading premises in Itanagar market.
During the check, the LMCA team inspected items like packaged commodities to ensure the mandatory declaration as per the provision of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011 and Weights and Measures to ensure all users are complying through verification and stamping of its possessed Weights and Measures and Weighing & Measuring instruments in their day to day transactions respective trading premises with maintaining the accuracy of Weights and Measures as per the provision of the Legal Metrology (General) Rules 2011 & the Legal Metrology Acts 2009.
During the inspection of meat & vegetable vendors, grocery & hardware shops, hotels and local daily market of Itanagar area, the inspection team detected several irregularities at various trading premises. Accordingly, the team seized weights and measures from 14 (fourteen) traders for using weights and measures/weighing and measuring instruments that had not been re-verified as required under the relevant provisions of the LMA, 2009.
Furthermore, the team cautioned sellers dealing in packaged commodities, including tiles, building materials, motor parts, sanitary items and food products, against charging exorbitant prices and selling packaged commodities without complying with the mandatory declarations prescribed under Rule 6 of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011. The defaulters were booked under Section 18 of the LMA, 2009 for violation of the prescribed provisions.
During the inspection, Dr Tana urged all traders to obtain verification certificate of their possessed unverified weights and measures/ Weighing & Measuring instruments through the Legal Metrology Officer to avoid seizure and penalty, and also warned all traders not to sale beyond prescribed rates and to adhere to the provision of the Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules 2011, and not to sell packaged commodities without mandatory declaration. (DIPRO)