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The Labour Department precocious inspected nutrient and rootlike shops successful the territory and seized unverified weighing instruments.
Following a ailment received done the power country astatine the District Collectorate, officials inspected shops successful the Ammapettai and Guruvareddiyur areas. Teams led by Assistant Commissioner of Labour (Enforcement), Erode, K. Jayalakshmi, comprising Labour Sub-Inspectors, Assistant Labour Inspectors and Stamp Inspectors, verified whether the weighing and measuring instruments utilized by traders, including physics weighing machines, weights and measures, had been re-verified and stamped wrong the prescribed period.
It was recovered that respective traders were utilizing weighing and measuring instruments for commercialized purposes without due re-verification and stamping, successful usurpation of the Legal Metrology Act. A full of 98 items were seized, including 15 physics weighing machines, 9 array scales, 9 beam balances, 60 weights and 5 measures.
The Assistant Commissioner of Labour (Enforcement) warned traders that strict enactment would beryllium taken nether the Legal Metrology Act if physics weighing machines, weights and measures were utilized without mandatory re-verification and stamping. Offenders would look seizure of instruments, imposition of fines and further ineligible proceedings, officials said.
