Sri Lanka has decided to verify the calibrations used in three newly utilities and services in its retail sector. These new verifications are a first for these three sectors which are largely free of close supervision hitherto said the Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen on 8 December. The new consumer safeguards are to be implemented by Minister Bathiudeenโs Measurement Units, Standards and Services Department (MUSSD) -the apex institute and the regulatory body in charge of measurements in Sri Lanka.
Minister Bathiudeen was addressing the inauguration event of MUSSDโs re-location (to a new premises) at Mahenawatte, Pitipana, Homagama on 8 December. Joining Minister Bathiudeen were Bandula Gunawardene (MP) and K Premasiri Kumara (Actg Director, Measurement Units, Standards and Services Department (MUSSD).
โMeasurement Units, Standards and Services Department (MUSSD) is the top institute and the regulatory body in charge of measurements in Sri Lankaโ stressed Minister Bathiudeen, and added: โIt is in charge of the National Measurement System and Standards of the country and provides calibration facilities of measuring instruments in industry, establishment including the Watt hour meters, pressure meters, weights and scales etc and also conducts raids. To safeguard consumers, the department is aiming for a target of one million units of verification of weighing & measuring instruments in trade in the future and also plans to verify meters in three new utility sectors-commercial taxis including three wheelers, chemicals and pesticides. These new verifications are a first for the three sectors which have been largely free of close supervision up to now.โ
Via the MUSSD, Sri Lanka has become an Associate Member country of the Paris based General Conference on Weights and Measures (CGPM). Under the MUSSDโs Raids Programme a total of Rs 1.9 Mn fines have been collected by September this year.
Leader of All Ceylon Makkal Congress