The Government has added seven more districts in the sixth phase of mandatory hallmarking of Gold Jewellery and Gold Artefacts (Amendment) Order, 2026. These include Rupnagar in Punjab, Banda in Uttar Pradesh and Beed in Maharashtra, along with four other districts.

 

The sixth phase of the mandatory hallmarking, which came into force from the second of this month, covered 380 districts under mandatory hallmarking. Since 2021, more than 60 Crore Gold Items are hallmarked with Hallmark Unique Identification- HUID so far.

 

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) in a statement said that mandatory hallmarking covers six caratages of gold jewellery and artefacts. These include 14 karat, 18 karat, 20 karat, 22 karat, 23 karat and 24 karat. BIS added that under the Indian Standard, a provision for 9 karat hallmarking is also available, which is currently a voluntary grade.

 

The Bureau further said that consumers can verify the authenticity and purity of hallmarked gold jewellery carrying the HUID number by using the Verify HUID feature on the BIS CARE mobile application.