MOCAF&PD Introduces Voluntary Digital HUID-Based Hallmarking for Silver Jewellery and Articles from September 2025.
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The Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution (MOCAF&PD) has introduced voluntary hallmarking for silver jewellery and articles with a digital Hallmarking Unique Identification (HUID) system, effective from 1 September 2025. This reform is designed to ensure purity verification, quality assurance, and enhanced consumer protection.
- The objective of the new hallmarking initiative is to safeguard consumer rights, build transparency in silver transactions, and prevent malpractices in the silver jewellery market. It also brings silver hallmarking norms in closer alignment with gold hallmarking standards, creating a uniform benchmark for the jewellery sector.
- The HUID-based hallmarking system comprises three essential components: the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) standard mark with the word “SILVER,” a purity grade, and a 6-digit alphanumeric HUID code. Together, these ensure complete traceability of each silver article from registration to sale.
Main Point :- (i) Under the revised IS 2112:2025 standard, silver articles will now be certified under seven purity grades—800, 835, 925, 958, 970, 990, and 999.
(ii) This replaces the earlier IS 2112:2014 standard, with the newly introduced 958 and 999 grades designed to better align with the hallmarking benchmarks already used for gold jewellery.
(iii) Consumers stand to benefit significantly from this reform, as the BIS Care mobile application allows them to trace and verify silver jewellery by checking article type, purity, hallmarking date, details of the Assaying and Hallmarking Centre (AHC), and jeweller registration. This strengthens protection against adulteration and fraud in the jewellery market.
About Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
Director General (DG): Pramod Kumar Tiwari
Headquarters: New Delhi
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