Which department of the Government of India is organising the 61st CIML Meeting?
- A.Department of Commerce
- B.Department for Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade
- C.Department of Consumer Affairs
- D.Department of Science and Technology
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Explanation
The correct answer is the Department of Consumer Affairs, which comes under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution and is organising the meeting in association with the International Organization of Legal Metrology. The choice follows from the subject matter: legal metrology governs weights, measures and the instruments used in trade, so correct quantity declarations and fair transactions are a consumer protection concern. The Department has been modernising the regulatory framework, simplifying compliance procedures and promoting trust-based regulation along with ease of doing business, and the meeting gives it a platform to set those reforms out before other countries. The other three options are real government bodies but none of them is named as organiser in the announcement.
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Practice Questions
Which city will host the 61st Meeting of the International Committee of Legal Metrology?
- A.Paris
- B.New Delhi
- C.Geneva
- D.Tokyo
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India will host the 61st CIML Meeting from 26 to 28 October 2026, the first time the country has been given this meeting, and the Department of Consumer Affairs is organising it with the International Organization of Legal Metrology.
Read the full explanation →In which year was the International Organization of Legal Metrology established?
- A.1945
- B.1955
- C.1965
- D.1975
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The OIML was founded in that year as an intergovernmental organisation whose purpose is to bring legal metrology procedures in different countries into line with one another.
Read the full explanation →What is the title of the international seminar being organised alongside the 61st CIML Meeting?
- A.Evolutions in Legal Metrology
- B.Measurement for Fair Trade
- C.Digital Metrology Mission
- D.Standards for Viksit Bharat
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That seminar is set for 26 October 2026 and will bring experts from different countries together to trade experience and good practice on modernising legal metrology systems.
Read the full explanation →How many participants and institutions took part in the first CSSIF stakeholder consultation?
- A.More than 50 participants from over 20 institutions
- B.More than 150 participants from over 80 institutions
- C.More than 250 participants from over 40 institutions
- D.More than 500 participants from over 120 institutions
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The meeting brought together stakeholders from government ministries and departments, operational agencies, research and academic institutions, non-governmental organisations, civil society and the private sector, spread across several states of the country.
Read the full explanation →Which nationwide system was argued for at the technical session of the consultation?
- A.National Disaster Alert Network
- B.Climate Services Information System
- C.Integrated Weather Grid
- D.National Monsoon Mission
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The introductory talk of the technical session, given by Dr Rupa Kumar Kolli, formerly Chief of the Climate Applications and Services Division at the World Meteorological Organization, set out why the country needs such a system to carry climate information to the people who must act on it.
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