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The Legal Metrology Wing of the Department Food & Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Legal Metrology, U.T., Chandigarh is engaged in regulating use of correct weighing and measuring instruments in trade and commerce, to ensure that exact weight, measure and number of any commodity is provided to any customer as contracted for, or paid for by him. It also safeguards consumer's interest by ensuring mandatory declarations on packaged commodities.

Recently checking were conducted in commercial establishments across Chandigarh and it was found that some firms are covering the declarations provided on the pre-packed commodities by their own M.R.P sticker, which is a violation of Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011 and 01 Challan was imposed amount of Rs. 5,000/- against the firms.

It is for the information of the business establishments and the general public that as per rule 6 of The Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011, every pre-packaged commodity should have mandatory declarations such as complete name and address of the manufacturer/packer/ importer, month and year of packing/import, common or generic name of the commodity, net contents, Unit Sale Price and the sale price of the package (Maximum Retail Price, incl. of all taxes), Customer Care Number with name, address, Telephone No. of the person/office which can be contacted in case of consumer complaints and size, if applicable printed on the such packages and declaration printed on them conform to the contents of the package.

The department is going to start extensive checking drives in coming days for violations of The Packaged Commodities Rules, 2011. The business establishments are hereby requested to ensure that the provisions of the rules are followed in letter and spirit.

The consumers are also requested to check for the declarations on packages. In case of any complaints, the department can be contacted via email- fcs-chd@nic.in or via phone at 1800-180-2068(toll free) or 0172-2679348.