Jewellers Monday opposed the government’s move on issuing hallmarking certicards for jewellery. “The GJF has opposed the national standards body Bureau of Indian Standards’ proposal to issue a certicard for the jewellery retailers in metro for each piece of jewellery sold,” said All India Gems & Jewellery Trade Federation (GJF) chairman Haresh Soni. Soni has written to Consumer Affairs Minister K.V. Thomas terming the proposal as “cumbersome, impractical, expensive and time-consuming”.
He said the proposal which would make it mandatory for jewellers in metros to issue a certicard with each piece of jewellery along with its photograph and unique identification mark is highly unviable and not customer-friendly.