The Weight and Measure Agency (WMA) said in Dar es Salaam that the manual inspection applied for years has amicably stopped and was now inspecting electronically.
The electronic system has been reported to record impressive improvement in increasing efficiency and simplifying work as opposed to the previous inspection whereby measurement calculation were done by using calculator.
Speaking to reporters, WMA Acting Manager for Information, Education and Information, Ms Irene John said that the old system was too tedious as it was taking us two to three days while the new system was too fast and within half an hour produces the results.
“The system will help avoiding human errors because modern equipment like scanners will provide accurate and reliable results and this will create willingness for customers to timely pay for service rendered,” she said.
She said oil tankers and trucks building materials for instance used documents prepared manually which subjected them to theft and misplacement but with the new system it will make operations simpler and user friendly.
On the economic benefit of the new system, she said the government with no doubt will generate more revenues both in local and foreign currency hence contributing more for national economic growth.
According to the official, good citizens should immediately report incidence of sabotage by dishonest businessmen who used to siphon revenue illegally generated from using the phased out system across the country.
The WMA Legal Counsel Mr Moses Mbunde said the legislative process was underway to introduce deterrent measures to be registered against unscrupulous businessmen exploiting customers by using substandard measures and weights.
“Offenders going with these malpractices risk being fined to the tune of not less than 1m/- which is up from the current fine not exceeding 10,000/- for the first count,” she said.
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