About Us
The Department of Legal Metrology is one of the important organs of Consumer’s Protection. It has an important role to play in providing the Citizen with friendly adminstration of services. It is concerned with technical and statutory requirements to safeguard the public Interest from the point of view of security and accurancy of weights,measures etc.,
The first and foremost duty of the Department of Legal Metrology is to build confidence in the consumers and to make the uniformity of the standards, in accordance with the International System of Units(SI). The noble and bounden duty of the Department of Legal Metrology is to protect the interest of the people by providing actual assistance and services of Legal Metrology and to ensure the correctness in all sorts of measurements particularly related to the commercial transactions.
1. DEPARTMENT AT A GLANCE: There is only one office is situated for Peddpalli District
Head quarters having with staff : 1) DIST LEGAL METROLOGY OFFICER (DLMO)
2) TECHNICAL ASSISTANT
3) OFFICE SUBORDINATE
- ACTVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT:-
1) Implementation of Legal Metrology Act/Rules by attending re-verification and stamping of various weights, measures, weighing instruments and measuring instruments atleast once in a year possessing by the traders, Government and private companies of the district
2) Ensuring proper weighment in market yards, Ikp centers, rice mills, etc for the protection of farmers where they sell their produce.
3) Ensuring proper surprise raids on fair price shops, petrol bunks, weigh bridges etc to prevent erring traders regarding short delivery of fuel, short weighment to the consumers as well as farmers.
4) Ensuring that, no one should sell any packaged commodities on excess price than the declared sale price. Usually, cool drinks, mineral water etc.
5) To conduct awareness programs in various weekly bazaars, market yards, etc in the district.
6) The department is enforcing the Packaged Commodities Rules 2011 to ensure the declarations so as to give the definite information to the consumers regarding
i) Name and address of the manufacturer
ii) Identity of the commodity or common generic name of the commodity
iii) Net quantity, net contents of the package
iv) Month and year of manufacturing / packing
v) Sale price along with inclusive of all taxes
vi) Consumer care cell contact number for redressal of consumer queries