In the process of 2024 Year-End- Review, Department of Consumer Affairs (DoCA), Government of India also reviewed & highlighted their one of the major activities of the Hallmarking! During the period from 1st April, 2024 to 25th November, 2024 number of hallmarking registration has grown from 1,87,936 to 1,95,155.
While the number of BIS recognized Assaying and Hallmarking centres have increased from 1540 to 1604. 26 Off-Site Centres were also recognized during the period. During the same period, 9.69 crore articles of gold and silver jewellery/artefacts have been hallmarked.
Amendment to Quality control order for mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery/artefacts has been issued on 05th November, 2024 by the Govt. of India which has increased the number of districts covered under mandatory hallmarking from 343 districts of the country to 361 districts where there is at least one Assaying and Hallmarking Centre.
In view of the implementation of Mandatory Hallmarking Order, a new online system for the automation of the assaying & hallmarking activities at AHCs was made functional with the new Hallmark consisting of six-digit HUID (Hallmarking Unique ID) since 01 July 2021. Since the launch of HUID based system for hallmarking, 44.28 crore articles of gold jewellery/artefacts have been hallmarked as on 25 November 2024.
Automation of XRF activity in AHC through API, wherein manual entry of XRF data could not be carried out, was implemented from 01 September 2024.
Hallmarking of gold Bullion in the fineness of 999 & 995 as per IS 1417:2016 was started in October 2015. Under this scheme, so far, 58 licences have been granted to refineries/ India Government Mint for Gold bullion and coin as on 25 November, 2024.
Govt. of India has launched Gold Monetization Scheme on 05 November 2015. So far, 48 A&H centres and one Jeweller have been qualified to act as Collection and Purity Testing Centres (CPTC). Under the Plan Scheme for Hallmarking, during this period, four AHCs were provided Central Assistance for setting up the centre in deficient location.
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