LMU

The Legal Metrology Unit is the Technical wing of the Department which has to shoulder the responsibility of implementing various laws on Legal Metrology and Packaged Commodities rules.
The Legal Metrology Unit has a standard laboratory at Gangtok where working standard and secondary standard weighing and measuring instruments are kept.
The basic function of the department is to maintain accuracy in all weighing instruments, volumetric measures and measuring instruments. Further the shops and commercial establishments are also checked under package commodity rules thus ensuring the general public that they get the right quantity and the correct price.
The commercial weights that we see in the market is checked with the working standard weight and the accuracy in weighment is maintained.
Any commodities sold in packed form should have their declarations (price, quantity, batch no. etc.) on the packet as per the packaged commodity rules.