From The Hindu, January 28, 1975: Bill to ensure correct weights and measures
The HinduNew Delhi, Jan. 27: A Bill regulating the provisions relating to metric weights and measures would soon be considered by Parliament, the Minister of State for Industry and Civil Supplies, Mr. A.C. George, said here to-day. Mr. George, who was inaugurating a conference of the developing countries on metrication and legal metrology, stressed the need for a correct measurement of weights and measures in a developing country not only to prevent consumers being cheated but to ensure that the commodities of developing countries could compete effectively with those of the advanced ones. The Weights and Measures committee, on whose report the proposed legislation would be based, estimated that even one per cent error in weighing and measuring in retail trade in India would cause a loss of Rs. Mr. George said the provisions in the proposed law on metrological and allied matters relating to packaged commodities required that the quantity contained in a package should not be less than the quantity declared.
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