Karnataka on Monday rejected the Centre's proposal to privatise weights and measures department saying it favoured retaining the department under the government control. | |
| "Weights and measures department is a regulatory body and the government should have control over it in the interest of the common man," Karnataka minister for food and civil supplies H S Mahadeva Prasad said here. |
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| He said plans were afoot to reorganise the department by augmenting staff strength and providing vehicles for inspection. |
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| The government will soon deploy a mobile weigh bridge inspection unit, he added. |
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