Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)

Subject: Polity

Context: The Union minister addressed governing council of the BIS yesterday. He urged government departments and public sector undertakings (PSUs) to abide only by Indian standards in procurement processes

Concept:

• It is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016 for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.
• It works under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
• The Minister in charge of the Ministry or Department having administrative control of the BIS is the ex-officio President of the BIS.
• It is one of the founder member of International Organization for Standardization (ISO).
• It seeks to provide safe reliable quality goods, minimizing health hazards to consumers, promoting exports and imports substitute, control over proliferation of varieties etc. through standardization, certification and testing.
• BIS has its Headquarters at New Delhi and its 05 Regional Offices (ROs) are at Kolkata (Eastern), Chennai (Southern), Mumbai (Western), Chandigarh (Northern) and Delhi (Central).