New Delhi, Oct. 27 -- India is set to overhaul and decriminalise all provisions and rules of the Legal Metrology Act, which governs robustness of consumer and industrial products, cosmetics to elevators, to usher in a regime of quicker and reliable private-sector certification with the oversight of state controllers, Union consumer affairs minister Pralhad Joshi said on Saturday. Legal metrology deals with quality and quantity of consumer items to ensure products contain and conform to what their labels claim. It is especially key to weights and measures of packaged items and machines used for industrial calibration. For instance, every shop or commercial establishment, health care providers, such as hospitals, and even lifts in buildings need legal metrology certifications to operate. Metrology rules enforce uniformity of standards, in accordance with International System of Units (SI).The overhaul is aimed at not just making compliance easy for businesses but increasing consumer confidence and bringing information technology into play, Joshi said. "Development of an eMaap portal will unify all functions of legal metrology including enforcement to create a unified database, providing transparency for consumers, easing compliance burdens for traders and industries, and simplifying procedures for legal metrology officials," Joshi said. According to Joshi, India has become 13th country globally to issue OIML or International Organisation of Legal Metrology-based approval certificates....