Essential Commodities Order, 2021.

The Ministry has declared ‘Soya Meal’ as an Essential Commodities up to 30th June, 2022 by amending the Schedule of the Essential Commodities Act, 1955.

Department of Food and Public Distribution has extended the deadline upto 31st March 2022 for aadhar linking with ration card.

It is clarified that no beneficiary/household shall be deleted from the list of eligible beneficiaries/households only on the ground of not possessing an Aadhaar number, and shall also not be denied from subsidized foodgrains or cash transfer of food subsidy under NFSA due to failure of biometric/Aadhaar authentication because of network/ connectivity/ linking issues/ poor biometric of the beneficiary or other technical reasons.

The Bureau of Indian Standards (Conformity Assessment) (Sixth Amendment) Regulations, 2021.

The Conformity Assessment Scheme, which is based on combination of product certification and management system along with process requirements, if applicable, the Bureau may grant licence to use or apply Standard Mark for goods or article manufactured in a manufacturing premises which conform to all requirements of Indian Standards for that product and demonstrates conformity of management system to the relevant Indian Standards and conformity to process requirements, as specified.

The Central Consumer Protection Authority (Form of annual statement of accounts and records) Rules, 2021.

As per rule 3, the central authority, at the expiration of a period of twelve months ending with the 31st March of every year, shall prepare a balancesheet, an income and expenditure account and receipt and payment account in Form – I, Form – II and Form – III, respectively and shall preserve accounts and other relevant records for a minimum period of five years following the financial year to which they relate.