ई-मापविज्ञान

The main role of the Legal Metrology organization is to ensure Accuracy of commercial weights and measure which are used for various trades in the state. This Department protects the consumer’s interest by conducting surprise visits and inspection of the trader’s premises, packers, packing units to verify the accuracy of weights and measures as well as to check the net contents. A short delivery and over-pricing are the same offences against the consumers. The Legal Metrology has to keep strict vigil on the offenders and enforce the provision of law by firm hands. Different penal provisions are prescribed for errant traders and other persons under the Legal Metrology Act 2009. Such offenders are brought to book and punished accordingly. The department conducts re-verification camps in the remote areas of the state every year and in these camps, department carry verification work of all kind of weights and measures of traders. The legal metrology officers educate poor and economically week consumers about their rights also.