Mandatory gold hallmarking from June 1

The authorities on Tuesday mentioned it’s totally ready to implement obligatory hallmarking of gold jewelry and artefacts from June 1, 2021.
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the valuable metallic and is voluntary in nature at current. The Centre, in November 2019, had introduced that hallmarking of gold jewelry and artefacts can be made obligatory throughout the nation from January 15, 2021. The authorities had given jewellers greater than a yr to shift to hallmarking and register themselves with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).