Objective and Utility of the Department

In Chandigarh, the Department of Legal Metrology is established under the Food & Supplies Department. The main objective and liability of the department is to ensure accuracy, uniformity and standardization of weights & measures, which are used in commercial transactions or for protection, in hierarchy of standards established by the Central Government as per provisions of the Legal Metrology Act, 2009, by verifying and stamping them within prescribed periodical intervals. In addition to this, another important liability of the department is to regulate and control the trade in pre-packaged commodities by ensuring that such packages confirm to the declarations, as well as net quantity contained therein, as prescribed under the Act and Rules.