A massive drive was carried out by the Department of Legal Metrology in Sanguem Taluka for the inspection of weights & measures and packaged commodities under the provision of Legal Metrology Act 2009, read with Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
16,176 packages of ‘7 Up of 1.25 Liters worth of 8.5 Lakhs has been seized for not bearing the name and complete address of the customer care which is in violation of the provision of Legal Metrology Act 2009, read with Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011.
The said drive was carried out by Shri Vikas V. Kandolkar, Inspector, Legal Metrology, Sanguem, Goa, under the supervision of Shri Nitin P. Purushan, Assistant Controller, Legal Metrology, South Zone-I, Margao, Goa and Smt. Ranjan M. Borkar, Assistant Controller, Legal Metrology, South Zone-II, Curchorern, Goa and assisted by Shri Samir C. Khanapurkar and Shri Pascual Vaz.
All the consumers are hereby informed that before buying any packaged commodity, they should check the below mentioned mandatory declaration such as name and complete address of the manufacturer/packer/importer, common generic name, country of origin, month and year of manufacture/pre-packing date/import date, maximum retail price, and name and complete address of the person and the office which can be contacted in case of consumer complaint.
‘JAGO GRAHAK JAGO’ and this drive will go on till the violation under the provision of Legal Metrology Act 2009, read with Legal Metrology (Packaged Commodities) Rules, 2011, is eradicated.
