The six-digit HUID quantity was launched on July 1, 2021. (Representative picture)
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the dear steel. It was voluntary in nature until June 16, 2021.
The authorities’s standard-setting physique Bureau of Indian Standards on Tuesday stated that it’s going to not lengthen April 1 deadline for making six-digit alphanumeric HUID necessary for gold hallmarked jewelry.
Addressing a press convention, BIS chief Pramod Kumar Tiwari additionally stated that BIS is framing requirements for rising applied sciences like blockchain.
“We make requirements as a way to promote ease of doing enterprise. Our nationwide requirements are being harmonised with the worldwide requirements in order that our exterior commerce is clean,” news agency PTI quoted Tiwari as saying.
Tiwari said the government has set April 1 as the deadline for the sale of gold jewellery and gold artefacts hallmarked with only a six-digit alphanumeric HUID (Hallmark Unique Identification) and this will not be extended.
“We have given more than 2 years for jewellers to clear the old old stock. No further extension will be provided now,” he stated.
A gathering was held lately with the jewellers’ physique to impress on them to implement mandatorily the 6-digit HUID mark on gold jewelry, he added.
On the jewellers’ suggestion, Tiwari stated the Bureau has determined to incorporate the ‘weight’ of gold jewelry and artefacts as a part of the hallmark. That aside, laser machines used for 6-digit HUID mark at assaying centres are additionally being harmonised with the BIS system to guard customers’ curiosity and guarantee individuals are not cheated with a reproduction seal of HUID mark.
There are about 1,400 assaying centres within the nation.
Out of twenty-two,000 BIS requirements, 8,000 requirements are harmonised with worldwide requirements that include IEC requirements for electrical fields and ISO requirements for non-electrical fields. In truth, 88 per cent of the BIS requirements have already been harmonised with the worldwide friends, he stated.
India is actively engaged in framing requirements for rising applied sciences like synthetic intelligence, blockchain, mind computing interface and massive knowledge analytics, amongst others. The nation is main tasks in these new areas on the worldwide degree, which might emerge as ISO requirements in future, he added.
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the dear steel. It was voluntary in nature until June 16, 2021. The six-digit HUID quantity was launched on July 1, 2021.
Till now, the outdated hallmarked jewelry with 4 marks (BIS emblem, purity of the article in addition to emblem of jeweller and Assaying and Hallmarking Centre) with out HUID was additionally permitted to be offered by the jewellers together with the six-digit HUID mark.
After the introduction of HUID, the hallmark consisted of three marks — BIS emblem, purity of the article and six-digit alphanumeric HUID. Each hallmarked article has a singular HUID quantity, which is traceable.
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