{"id":43424,"date":"2021-05-26T07:02:25","date_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=43424"},"modified":"2021-05-26T07:02:26","modified_gmt":"2021-05-26T07:02:26","slug":"which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct-with-reference-to-the-hallmarking-of-gold-jewellery-and-artefacts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/which-of-the-following-statements-is-are-correct-with-reference-to-the-hallmarking-of-gold-jewellery-and-artefacts\/","title":{"rendered":"Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts?<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A. Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the precious metal and is voluntary in nature at present.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>B. The BIS has been running a hallmarking scheme for gold jewellery since April 2000.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>C. Both A &amp; B<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>D. None of these<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Explanation:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The government of India has extended the deadline for mandatory hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts by a fortnight till June 15 in view of the COVID-19 pandemic. Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the precious metal and is voluntary in nature at present. The BIS has been running a hallmarking scheme for gold jewellery since April 2000. Around 40 per cent of gold jewellery is being hallmarked currently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Which of the following statements is\/are correct with reference to the hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts? A. Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the precious metal and is voluntary in nature at present. B. The BIS has been running a hallmarking scheme for gold jewellery since April 2000. C. Both A &amp; B [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":404,"featured_media":43410,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1408],"tags":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-43424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-quiz-may-2021"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43424"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43425,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43424\/revisions\/43425"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43424"},{"taxonomy":"offerexpiration","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/offerexpiration?post=43424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}