450 shopkeepers fined in Jhapa, Morang, Saptari

BY OUR CORRESPONDENT

Biratnagar, Dec. 23: A total of Rs. 1,17,000 revenue has been collected through fines from 450 shop owners in Morang, Jhapa and Saptari districts who were found involved in deceiving the customers using faulty scales.

The guilty were fined by the Regional Office of Quality Control and Standards, Biratnagar for using Indian scales, using unchecked beam balances, running shops without license and selling underweight amount. The Regional Quality Control Office had conducted inspections late last month in different part of these districts. According to Quality Control officer Sashi Bhushan Yadhav the small business owners were fined ranging from Rs. 1 to Rs. 1,000 as per the provisions of Quality Control and Standards Act 2055.

Yadhav said that the Quality Control Office regularly conducts such surprise inspections. "This has helped a lot in controlling illegal business and served the interests of the consumers."

Such acts of deceit are going on more in rural areas than in the urban centres. However, inspections are not conducted in the rural areas till now. Consequently, some of the retailers are using locally made measurement appliances. They even use stones and bricks for weighing goods for business purposes.

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