Numeration Rules

                                                                  MINISTRY OF FOOD AND CIVIL SUPPLIES

                                                                         (Department of Civil Supplies)

                                                                                     NOTIFICATION

                                                                                                                            New Delhi, the 2^nd December 1987

G.S.R.  946 (E). - In exercise of the powers conferred by section 83 of the Standards of Weights and Measures Act, 1976 (60 of 1976), the Central Government hereby makes the following rules, namely: -

1.Short title and commencement. –

(1) These rules may be called the Standards of Weights and Measures (Numeration) Rules, 1987.

(2) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazette.

2. Numeration- how to be made.-

(1) Every numeration shall be made in accordance with the decimal system

(2) Every number shall be represented on base ten.

*(3) In representing any number in digits, the International form of Indian numerals, namely, 0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9 or a combination thereof shall be used.”;

* substituted vide GSR No 208 (E) dated 14.3.02

Proviso omitted vide GSR No 208(E) dated 14.3.02

3. Manner in which numbers exceeding three digits (how to be expressed) shall be written in works. –

Numbers expressed in digits exceeding three shall be written in words in the manner specified in the Schedule annexed to these rules.

Provided that for a period of ten years from the commencement of these rules, such numbers may be expressed in works in the terminology used in any local or regional languages.

4. Manner in which numbers shall be written (how to be written). –

(1) In writing, accordance to any Indian terminology, any number in digits exceeding three, the decimal point shall be taken as the starting point and the first three digits, whether to the left or right of the decimal point, shall be grouped together and the subsequent digits shall be divided in groups of two and neither dots not commas shall be inserted in the spaces intervening between such groups of digits.

Example: 23 14 345.732 23 50

(2) In writing accordance to English terminology, any number in digit exceeding three, the decimal point shall be taken as the starting point and the digits, whether to the left or to the right of the decimal point, shall be divided into groups of three, starting from the decimal point and neither dots nor commas shall be inserted in the spaces intervening between such groups of digits.

Example: 123 345.732 456

Schedule ** (Substituted vide GSR No  208 (E) dated 14.3.02)

(See rule 3)