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Hallmarking will guarantee the purity or fineness of the precious metal.
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Foreign investors continue to show confidence in the country's equity market, infusing Rs 14,167 crore so far this month, largely driven by favourable global cues and robust domestic fundamentals. Notably, this inflow has come despite the ongoing military tensions between India and Pakistan.
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India Bullion and Jewellers Association said, self-certification of coins by refineries contravenes the basic purpose of a certifying agency.
The government's move to make hallmarking for gold mandatory from January 1, 2008 has got into bottlenecks thanks to lukewarm response from jewelers across the country.
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the precious metal and is voluntary in nature at present.
Consumers have to watch out for four marks on hallmarked gold jewellery: BIS mark, purity in carat, assay centre's name and jewellers' identification mark.
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Here is all you need to know about hallmarking of gold.
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The Bureau of Indian Standards, the apex body involved in developing technical standards and product certification, had introduced a gold hallmarking scheme in 2000 on a voluntary basis. The federation is protesting against the licensing procedure in the proposed Hallmarking Act and the infrastructure for the practical implementation of the act is inadequate.
Lack of security provisions coupled with inadequate infrastructure and lukewarm response from jewellers have put the government decision of making hallmarking mandatory for gold from January 1, 2008 into uncertainties.
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The hallmarking of gold, which is voluntary in nature at present, is a purity certification of the precious metal.
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The government on Thursday said nearly 7,000 jewellers have been granted hallmark licences after the quality standards, or hallmarking, for gold were launched in 2001.
The government would make hallmarking of gold jewellery mandatory from 2008 and will soon put in place the necessary infrastructure required for the purpose.
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BIS proposes compulsory registration for selling hallmarked jewellery. This will kill business of online sales as BIS registration is given only to physical premises.
In the first phase the yellow metal sold in four metro-Delhi Mumbai Kolkata and Chennai would compulsorily have hallmarking, assuring the purity, while the rest of the country would have to implement the norms in the next few months.India consumes on an average 800 tonnes of gold each year.
Cognizant has said it aims to be back among India's top four IT services companies by 2027 by improving revenue, market share, bagging large deals, and gradual margin expansion. The Nasdaq-listed company does a major part of its business in India, but has trailed peers such as Tata Consultancy Services and Accenture over the last few years as growth tapered, margins squeezed, and attrition soared.
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