Karnataka rejects Centre's proposal

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.

He said plans were afoot to reorganise the department by augmenting staff strength and providing vehicles for inspection.

The government will soon deploy a mobile weigh bridge inspection unit, he added.