How to avoid being cheated on weight at the mandi during weighment?

Weighment fraud is a common worry, and a few habits protect you. Insist that weighing is done on a verified mandi weighbridge or a stamped electronic scale, not a private or tampered one, and stand and watch the reading yourself. Note your own approximate weight before leaving home so you have a rough check. Make sure the empty bag or bardana weight, called tare, is correctly deducted and not over counted, and that moisture or refraction cuts are not applied on top of an already low weight without reason. Always collect the printed weighment slip and the final sale slip showing quantity and rate. If the recorded weight looks clearly wrong, raise it immediately with the mandi secretary or weights and measures staff before payment, since complaining after you leave is much harder. Selling through eNAM with recorded weighment also gives a clearer trail. Report any tampered scale to the mandi committee or local weights and measures office.