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Bullion World | Issue 04 | August 2021






          Success story of


          MMTC-PAMP on


          completing One


          Million Hallmarking


          within a time span


          of four working


          months







                                                                   What prompted MMTC-
                                                                   PAMP to enter the business

                                                                   of hallmarking? how many
                                                                   hallmarking centres do
                                                                   you have now? and where?
                                                                   what is the differentiator?
                                                                   Government of India announced the
                                                                   phased implementation of mandatory
                                                                   hallmarking of gold jewellery with effect
                                                                   from 16th Jun 2021 and this has started
                                                                   a new era in the field of hallmarking.

                                                                   India is the biggest consumer of gold
                                                                   and consumes around 800 tons per
                                                                   year. However, the level of hallmarked
                                                                   jewellery is very low in the country.
                                                                   At present, only 30% of Indian gold
                                                                   jewellery is hallmarked. One of the
                                                                   reasons responsible for low level of
                                                                   hallmarked jewellery is non-availability
                            Mr Ankur Goyal                         of sufficient assaying and hallmarking
                     President (Works) MMTC-PAMP                   centres (A&HC).


                                                                   Being a leader in precious metal field,
                                                                   MMTC-PAMP  thought for this scarcity
                                                                   of the Quality centres in hallmarking
                                                                   area and decided to serve country by
                                                                   setting up state-of-the-art centre which
                                                                   follows the BIS standard and delivers
                                                                   only Quality!

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