Legal Metrology Department

The Weights and Measures Department was renamed according to the OIML, located in Paris, (International Organization for Legal Metrology) instruction as Legal Metrology Department. The Department is working under Food & Consumer Affairs ministry.

Definition of Legal Metrology

Legal metrology comprises all activities for which legal requirements are prescribed on measurement, units of measurement, measuring instruments and methods of measurement, these activities being performed by or on behalf of governmental authorities, in order to ensure an appropriate level of credibility of measurement results in the national regulatory environment.

Government of Kerala

Kerala is a state in the Union of India. The Legal Metrology Department was formed in 1961 and Mr Adoor Prakash is the minister (Legal Metrology, Coir).

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The periodical verification and stamping of weight and measures; licensing of dealers, repairing and manufacturing of weights and measures; registration of users of weights; and prosecution of offenders are the basic duties of the Department of Legal Metrology.

Legal Metrology's motto : No less no more, but just exact.