HYDERABAD: The civil supplies department has issued a warning to manufacturers, packers and importers, agents collecting GST additional to MRP on packaged goods.
To facilitate consumers for giving complaints, a separate grievance cell is started. Consumers can complain on Civil Supplies WhatsApp number 7330774444 and also can call on the Legal, Metrology Department numbers 7386136907, 27612170 and can lodge complaint through mail to clm-ts@nic.in.
Commissioner CV Anand, who is also controller for Legal Metrology department, directed officials to take severe action if any complaint is received of additional GST being charged on MRP.
“Customers should be made aware the inclusion of GST in MRP and it should not to be charged separately. It is illegal. Immediate action will be taken and they will be punished severely,” he said.
Special teams have been formed with Legal and Metrology Department officials and staff to undertake special checks statewide from Thursday and book cases if any such malpractice or deceptive act is performed.