Page 15 - Bullion World Issue 4 August 2021

Bullion World | Issue 04 | August 2021

We all hope, the trade, BIS and AHMC
unitedly together will resolve the issue
in time to come and make mandatory
hallmarking successful paving way
for the country to become member
of Vienna Convention that will allow
Indian jewellery being accepted in most
participating counties without the need
for further testing and hallmarking.

Mr. Anil Kansara has done B.Sc
(Metallurgy) Engg. From National
remote on account of very negligible to XRF measurement uncertainty, Institute of Technology, Rourkela,
manufacturing activity. random sampling method adopted Orissa. He is having an experience of
running a gold and silver refinery and
as per IS standard 15820 and some
assaying and hallmarking centres in
The current hallmarking act provides negative tolerance allowed for other
Ahmedabad (since 1992).
the responsibility of getting hallmarking grades which in case of 24KS should
on the jewellery done by the licensed not be permitted. Currently he is a technical advisor
entity which makes the first sale. The to Yash Oro India Pvt Ltd. ( A BIS
stakeholders involved are manufacturers, The MTD 10 Committee of BIS has licensed Gold refinery in state of
Telangana) and Auro Metal Refinery
wholesalers, dealers and retailers. suggested some additional quality
Pvt Ltd., Ahmedabad. He is also a
This automatically translates in to control measures for 24KS (995 grade
director of a well renowned industrial
most hallmarking by licensed AHMC defined as standard gold without and Radiography non-destructive
being carried out only in and around any negative tolerance to align the inspection service company having
manufacturing hubs, may be around 10 same with Indian Good Delivery Gold two in-house radiography facilities
to 15 in the whole country. standard of 995 grade). located one each at Ahmedabad (
since 1982) and Rajkot.
As regard to allowing other than 14K, Apart from above, the HUID
Since 1986, Mr. Kansara has been
18K and 22 K fineness grades being (hallmarking unique identification) has
engaged with BIS as an MTD 10
permitted earlier, the Bureau has revised been introduced which has resulted in a Committee member and have actively
the relevant marking specification IS major disruption of business cycle time participated in drafting of standards
1417 by including 20K, 23K and 24 KS due to the the difficulty faced by AHMC on Gold and Silver assaying, refining
grades along with previous three grades. in practising the same and considerably and hallmarking. He has been also
associated with Iron and Steel Industry
As far as testing and hallmarking of slowing down the whole process of
for 11 Years.
20, 23 grades are concerned, there hallmarking, which instead of stipulated
are hardly any challenges technically time for 48 hours now take 3-5 days. Mr. Kansara has an experience of
speaking, as the assay methods are more than 30 years in the Precious
more or less same and the ones However, BIS is taking active steps to Metal Industry and he is one of
established for the other three grades resolve the issue as fast as possible, pioneer in introducing many of the
earlier. . the HUID has met with an all round process technologies being adopted
by refineries and assaying and
resistance from the whole jewellery
hallmarking units in India.
However 24KS grades does have bit of trade when looked upon from the small
challenges on the ground of technical and stand alone medium size retailers
competency of the Centre with respect and manufacturers view point .

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