hyderabad next time you go to a jewellery shop and find fewer designs to choose from dont fret as confusion over a new rule of allotting a hallmark unique identification huid number to every piece of jewel has resulting in lakhs of ornaments piling up for scrutiny and hallmarking in inspection centresthe bureau of indian standards bis has set up only 35 assaying and hallmarking centres ahcs in seven out of 33 districts in telangana bringing more misery to gold and silver merchants every day ahcs are receiving thousands of gold jewellery pieces and allotting huid to every piece is becoming timeconsuming traders say as the rules say the process has to be completed in 48 hours advt hyderabad jewellers have some infrastructure for the hallmarking process but in several districts of telangana gold merchants have to travel at least 300 kilometres to get bis hallmarking added murali krishna who is member of a task force formed to look into the issue in june the bureau of indian standards bis brought this new rule in place but gold jewellery merchants have urged the central government to modify the systemthe gold jewellery industry in telangana is very upset as several issues need to be addressed by the union government the lack of clarity in this new rule will have an impact on the gold jewellery industry said gold merchant mannepally murali krishnarepresentatives from 55000 jewellers registered with the telangana gold jewellery merchants association have formed a task force to chalk out their strategies to resolve the issues soon the task force will meet central ministers will urge them to make certain changes in bis rule to ensure hallmarking decisions in a smoother manner added a task force memberchand sreenivas rao director of a trade company in bullion market for more than five decades supported the issues raised by the gold jewellery traders the central government must carry out a study on possibilities and feasibilities rao said while the bis head k v rao there wont be any penalty till august advt by sunil mungara tnn published on aug 9 2021 at 0854 am ist telegram facebook copy link be the first one to comment comment now comments comment now read comment 1 all comments post post find this comment offensive choose your reason below and click on the submit button this will alert our moderators to take actions reasons for reporting foul language defamatory inciting hatred against a certain community out of context spam others report join the community of 2m industry professionals subscribe to our newsletter to get latest insights analysis download etretail app get realtime updates save your favourite articles scan to download app gold hallmark gold merchants jewellery shop jewellery hallmarking homenewstelangana mandatory hallmarking leaves gold merchants in the lurch