New Delhi, July 6 -- In a move aimed at reducing compliance costs and improving ease of doing business, the Department of Consumer Affairs has amended the Legal Metrology (General) Rules, 2011 to significantly cut the quantity of standard weights required for verifying high-capacity weighing instruments.

According to a Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution press release, the amendment introduces "a scientific, repeatability-based verification approach" for weighing instruments with a maximum capacity of one tonne and above.

The ministry said the earlier rules required "standard weights of at least one tonne or 50 per cent of the maximum capacity of the instrument, whichever was greater," before verification could be c...