Gold jewellery below 2 gram exempted from mandatory hallmarking

The government on Wednesday exempted gold jewellery, artefacts below 2 gram from mandatory hallmarking. In a gazette notification issued by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, mandatory hallmarking has been made applicable from January 15, 2021 across the country.

Silver jewellery and articles have been kept out of mandatory hallmarking as of now.

All jewellers who want to sale gold jewellery have to take BIS registration. As of now, 28, 849 jewellers have registered with BIS. Of these, nearly 3000 jewellers took registration in last three months on expectation of hallmarking becoming mandatory. 

However, total number of