BIS weighs mandatory silver hallmarking as voluntary tagging nearly doubles to 59 lakh articles
Bureau of Indian Standards is assessing market readiness to mandate silver hallmarking, citing the metal's split between organised and unorganised channels. Voluntary hallmarked articles jumped from 32 lakh in FY25 to 59 lakh in FY26 across 230 AHCs, with HUID already mandatory for hallmarked silver since September 2025.
What happened
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) · BIS is assessing infrastructure to make silver hallmarking mandatory in India, citing complexity of silver's organized and
Key facts
- 59 lakh articles hallmarked FY26
- 32 lakh FY25
- 230 AHCs
- 17 lakh HUID-tagged articles
- HUID mandatory Sept 2025
Why this matters
Scout bolt-on acquisitions of regional silver workshops with existing AHC relationships or BIS-licensed infrastructure, since compliance costs will force distressed sales among sub-scale unorganised players ahead of any mandate.