To protect the interests of the end user, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has initiated the initiative to provide buyers with the opportunity to test a sample of jewelry in the local branches of the organization.
In the framework of the initiative, if the purity of the metal does not correspond to that indicated by the jeweler, the Assaying and Hallmarking (A & H) Center, in which the purity of gold was determined, will be obliged to reimburse the cost of the examined and tested jewelry at three times the size.
The procedure for checking gold starts with the fact that the consumer brings decorations to the center of BIS, where the employee extracts samples from them for carrying out a test with a mass of 0.25 grams. The result of the study will be ready in seven or eight days.
In case the purity of the metal corresponds to the declared, the sample will be returned to the consumer with the appropriate certificate. If the gold turns out to be not the same sample that is indicated in the accompanying documents, a corresponding notification will be sent to the staging assay center demanding payment of a fine. If the assay center repeats its mistakes, in each subsequent case the amounts of compensation for the victims will increase.
The population of India is poorly informed about the branding, and the need to determine the purity of the metal is obvious, especially given that many buyers make transactions based on a trusting relationship with the jeweler, not paying much attention to the reliability of assay stamps.