Piyush Goyal urges States to support efforts to decriminalize LM ACT for improved ease of doing business

Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Textiles, and Commerce & Industry has sought effective implementation of laws to protect consumer interests without harassment of businesses. Delivering his inaugural address at the ‘National Workshop on legal Metrology Act, 2009’ here today, Shri Goyal suggested a pragmatic approach to decriminalize laws and urged states to support the initiative to balance the interest of consumers with the need to simplify laws so that businesses, particularly the small enterprises, are not put to undue hardship.