April 17 , 2021
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- The Government aims to implement mandatory hallmarking of gold artefacts and jewellery from June 1, 2021.
- Currently, Gold Hallmarking is voluntary in the country.
- Gold Hallmarking is providing purity certification to the gold jewellery and artefacts.
- Only three grades of jewelleries will now be hall marked under the new regulations.
- They are 14-carat, 18-carat and 22-carat.
- Earlier, ten grades of gold jewelleries were hall marked.
- The new Gold Hallmark will contain four marks.
- They are purity in carat, BIS mark, assay centre’s name and the identification mark of the jeweller.
- The Bureau of Indian standards Act, 2016 made gold hallmarking mandatory in India.
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