Vijayawada: Gullible domestic gas consumers in NTR and Krishna districts are getting cheated with short delivery of gas and extra charge beyond the maximum retail price of refills. Following frequent complaints in this regard, civil supplies minister Karumuri Venkata Nageswara Rao ordered legal metrology department to inquire into the issue. Legal metrology authorities called up domestic gas consumers at random …
Vijayawada: The Vigilance and enforcement sleuths have inspected 299 wholesale/retail traders, supermarkets and manufacturing units of edible oils and booked 123 cases under provisions of Legal Metrology Act, 2009 across the state. A release from the department on Wednesday said its teams detected sale of edible oils at prices higher than the MRP and booked the cases under the provisions …
Union Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Friday urged consumers to file complaints, if they find any information missing on the package of any product. Paswan said that the details of manufacturer, date of expiry, maximum retail price and other details of the product should be legible and should be given on packages of all …
Days after Mumbai government directed multiplexes to allow customers outside food, the Legal Metrology Department in Telangana has directed multiplexes and cinema theatres ot to sell packaged goods at more than maximum retail price and warned of penal action in case of violations. As per Legal Metrology Department Packaged Commodities selling goods at more than MRP was illegal, an official …
The Supreme Court on Tuesday directed that hotels and restaurants are not bound by the maximum retail price when they sell bottled mineral water within their premises. A bench led by Justice Rohinton Nariman held that the provisions of Legal Metrology Act will not be applicable to hotels and restaurants for selling bottled water above MRP, and no prosecution can …