Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Hallmarking

Subject – Economy

Context – To retain customers, manufacturers and sellers must implement ‘Hallmarking Unique Identity’ in spirit

Concept –

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Hallmarking was launched in 2001 as a voluntary scheme, with the objective of protecting the consumers against adulteration and justifying an obligatory responsibility of the manufacturers to maintain legal standards of fineness of precious metals in India.
Under this scheme, BIS-certified jewellers can get their jewellery hallmarked from any of the BIS-recognised Assaying and Hallmarking Centres (AHMCs).
Voluntary hallmarking was a fairly straightforward procedure, which required minimal documentation.
However, the introduction of HUID made it possible to validate the hallmarking process. By generating a unique identification number for each article of jewellery, and obligatory submission of reported sampling and testing for purity, complete transparency was achieved in the system.
- This facilitated the creation of a record of the transfer of ownership of jewellery articles, as well as, verification by the end-use customer regarding the authenticity of each unit using the HUID portal even before the purchase.

To know more about Hallmarking, please refer August 2021 DPN.

To know about Hallmark Unique Identification, please refer August 2021 DPN.