From July 1, it is mandatory to have a unique ID on every piece of jewelery, to know whether the jewelery has been stolen or not.

From July 1, it is mandatory to have a unique ID on every piece of jewelery, to know whether the jewelery has been stolen or not.

If the jewelry is stolen and lost, it will now be easier to identify its original owner, although this will happen if it has not been melted down and given a new look. The government is going to make UID mandatory for every piece of jewelery from July 1, just as the Aadhaar card has UID for the identification of the citizens of the country.

From this UID the seller will be able to identify the seller's code and jewelery. If the police or any other person submits the UID in the mobile app created by BIS, it will be possible to know when and where the jewelery was purchased. The jeweler will have information on which customer sold the jewelry with the UID.

Hallmark will be reduced from 4 to 3

Hallmarking in jewelery has been going on for a long time. It has 4, which gives information about BIS logo, purity, hall marking center and jeweler. Now in the new UID based hall marking the number of marks has been changed from 4 to 3. It will have the BIS logo, the purity and the logo of the third hallmarking center which will tell about the jewelers and jewelery. This arrangement will then help curb the business of selling impure and invalid jewelery.

Hallmarking will apply across the country from September 1

Hallmarking of gold jewelery has become mandatory in 256 districts of the country. From now on, jewelers in the district will be able to buy and sell only hallmarking jewelery. The government has given all jewelery traders till September 1 to hallmark their old stock. Until then he will have to do the hallmarking on the old stock. No action will be taken against any trader during this period.

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10% of jewelers in the country do not have a BIS license

According to Surendra Mehta, National Secretary, IBJA (Indian Bullion and Jewelers Association), the government has given jewelers more than a year to register, but there are about 5 lakh jewelers in the country at present, out of which only 40,000 have registered. That means even 10% of jewelers have not registered in 1 year. There are many jewelers who have not been registered on purpose.