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Short answer: The GCC uses the ETSI EN 302 208 UHF RFID allocation of 865-868 MHz, and India's WPC-notified band is 865-868 MHz — which sits entirely inside it. Indian-manufactured UHF tags, inlays, antennas and readers are therefore drop-in compatib..

Short answer: Nigeria and South Africa use the ETSI 865-868 MHz UHF RFID allocation, and India's licence-free band of 865-868 MHz sits entirely inside it. Tags, inlays, readers and antennas built and tuned in India are therefore a drop-in match for t..

Short answer: The Revised Schedule M extension for MSME pharmaceutical manufacturers with turnover up to Rs 250 crore ran to 31 December 2025 under G.S.R. 127(E) dated 11 February 2025, and from 1 January 2026 manufacturers who did not apply became s..

Short answer: The Plastic Waste Management (Amendment) Rules, 2026 were notified by MoEFCC on 31 March 2026 vide G.S.R. 237(E), effective from the date of publication in the Official Gazette. The new element is numeric reuse targets — 70% for drinkin..

Short answer: Biometric attendance is not illegal in India and has not been banned — fingerprint and face readers remain lawful and you can keep using them. What changed is that the Digital Personal Data Protection Rules, 2025 were notified on 13 Nov..

Short answer: MoRTH's draft guideline dated 30 December 2025 proposes a Battery Pack Aadhaar Number (BPAN) — a 21-character alphanumeric unique ID for every battery pack, marked on the pack in both alphanumeric and QR code format, with static and dyn..

Short answer: The Solid Waste Management Rules, 2026 were notified by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEFCC) on 27 January 2026 (reported as S.O. 388(E)) and came into force on 1 April 2026, superseding the 2016 Rules. They i..

Short answer: Walmart has extended item-level RFID beyond apparel into its wider general-merchandise assortment, and supplier-facing guidance describes 2026 as the year full item-level compliance is expected across essentially all mandated categories..

Short answer: RFID does not belong on every SKU in a dark store, and any vendor who tells you otherwise is selling you tags you don't need. It earns its money on high-value items, returnable crates and cold-chain totes — anywhere a single miscount co..

Short answer: PESO (the Petroleum and Explosives Safety Organisation) has published an official implementation page for the Gas Cylinders (Amendment) Rules, 2025, which require cylinders to carry a permanent, tamper-proof identification — barcode, QR..

Short answer: An EPC (Electronic Product Code) is the unique identifier written into an RFID tag's memory, and SGTIN-96 is the GS1 encoding scheme that retail RFID mandates in India normally ask for. It packs your GS1 Company Prefix, an item referenc..

Short answer: When RFID tags stop reading, the tag itself is rarely the fault. In Indian deployments the cause is almost always one of five things — the wrong tag for the surface (metal or liquid detuning), poor tag-to-antenna orientation, reader pow..