BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards)

The BIS Act 2016 established the National Standard Body of India for the healthy growth of the operations of standardization, branding, quality assurance of products, and topics related with or incident to such operations.

-Via standardization, certification, and checking, the BIS has already been providing detectable and substantial benefits to the country's economy in several different ways, including ensuring safe, trusted quality items, minimizing health implications to consumers, helping to promote exports and imports as an alternative, and controlling the expansion of varieties, among other things.

India's National Standard Agency is the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). BIS is in charge of ensuring the smooth operation of standardization, branding, and quality confirmation operations, as well as matters related to or collateral to any of these operations.

BIS has worked to meet several national objectives and other government assistance programs in recent years through its standards and guidelines operations, including the Swachh Bharat Abhiyan, Digital India, Make in India, and business climate. BIS continues to face technological improvements, global warming, environmental and energy preservation, health and safety concerns, and economic cooperation in its standard-setting efforts. BIS is aiming to simplify and accelerate the compatibility evaluation process.

FRAMEWORK FOR STATUS

Since October 12, 2017, the Bureau of Indian Standards Act of 2016 has already been effective. The following are some of the features of the new BIS Act:

·         Establishes BIS as the National Standards Organization. 

·         Enable numerous safety assessment systems following industry standards.

·         Allows the government to empower any department other than BIS to certify and monitor standard compliance.

·         Allows the government to certify items based on healthcare, security, the ecosystem, national defense, and the avoidance of deceptive practices.

·         Allows the government to make hallmarking of precious metal items a legal requirement.

·         It provides consumer rights measures such as product recalls for non-conforming labelled items, consumer indemnification, and stricter penalties.

OBJECTIVES OF BIS 

·         Total development of the operations of standardization, labelling, and quality assurance of products 

·         To boost the advancement of structured information to promote industrial learning and expansion while also meeting the demands of customers.

ACTIVITIES.

BIS's operations may be classified under the following categories:

1.      Development of standards.

2.      Global activities.

3.      Product Certifications.

4.      Hallmarking.

5.      Processes in the laboratories.

6.      National Institute of Training for Standardization's training services.

7.      Publicity and Customer Services.

Development of standards

Chemical compounds, Food and Agriculture, Civil, Electro-technical, Electronics & Technical Services, Mechanical Engineering, Managerial staff & Structures, Metallurgy Technology, Petroleum Coal & Related Items, Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning, Textile, Automobile Industries, Manufacturing & General Construction, and Water Management are among the 14 agencies that make up the Bureau of Standard Specifications. Fourteen Divisional Councils correspond to these Government agencies. A variety of Divisional committees function under each Divisional Commission.

Global activities

The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is the world's leading generator of optional Global Standards and is an independently, non-governmental organization that represents. BIS is a founding member of ISO and is directly engaged in creating Global Standards by serving on numerous Technical Committees, Sub-Committees, Professional Organizations, and other bodies as a Participation (P) or Observing (O) membership.

The International Electro-technical Committee (IEC) seems to be the world's leading body for producing and publishing Global Standards with all-electric, electronics, and core technologies. It was created in 1906. BIS is India's representative in the IEC.

CERTIFICATION OF THE PRODUCT

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) runs a Quality Assurance programmed to ensure that products meet Indian Specifications. The appearance of the BIS standardized mark (also known as the ISI mark) on goods shows that it complies with the applicable Standard Specification. Before awarding a license to a factory, the BIS verifies that the organization has the necessary infrastructure and capacity to produce and test products according to the applicable Standard Specification continuingly.

The BIS certification programmed is entirely optional. Furthermore, the Central Administration has formulated conformity with Standard Specifications essential for a variety of items through various acts in the public's interest.

Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme (FMCS).

To guarantee items created outside of India, the BIS has operated a separate process for international producers. Under such a system, multinational firms can apply to the BIS for certification to use the BIS Standards Name on their goods, confirming that they comply with applicable Indian standards (s).

Self-Declaration of Compliance Registration System.

The BIS Involves Gathering is a streamlined conformance assessment method. In this method, the producer declares that their product complies with the Indian Standard.

LABORATORY 

BIS has created eight testing Labs across the country to meet the needs of diagnostics for certification activity, including the Central Laboratory (CL) throughout Sahibabad, the Western Regional Office Laboratory (WROL) in Mumbai, the Northern Regional Office Laboratory (NROL) in Mohali, the Eastern Regional Office Laboratory (EROL) in Kolkata, the Southern Regional Office Laboratory (SROL) in Chennai, and the Bangalore Branch Office Laboratory (BBLOL) in Bangalore. In furthermore, BIS has approved NABL accredited facilities and governmental labs to do accredited certification testing. 

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF TRAINING FOR STANDARDIZATION (NITS)

BIS provides training to technical and management people from enterprises, consumer groups, public sector companies, government entities, and developing nations through the National Institute of Training for Standardization (NITS). The institution also organizes International Training Programs (ITP) for developing countries as part of the Indian govt's various cooperation programmers.

 

PUBLICITY AND CONSUMER AFFAIRS

BIS uses a variety of awareness programmes to raise awareness and enhance performance amongst all of its customers:

Consumer Awareness Programs: Consumer awareness campaigns are conducted regularly by various BIS Regional and Branch locations, sometimes in collaboration with Consumer Organizations, to promote the concepts of standards, accreditation, and quality perception amongst customers.

Industrial Awareness Programmes: BIS conducts Industrial Awareness Programmes to spread the concepts of standardization, certification requirements, management solution credentialing, and other BIS initiatives amongst companies.

Educational Utilization of Standards Programs (EUS): The Bureau of Indian Standards ( BIS Consultancy ) organizes Educational Utilization of Standards Programs (EUS) for students and teachers of schools, universities, and other institutions to introduce the ideas and advantages of standardization to younger generations.

Globe Standards Day: BIS commemorates Globe Standards Day on October 14 to honor the cooperative work of thousands of professionals worldwide who establish voluntary technological arrangements that are recognized as Global or National Regulations.

Customer complaints: Customer complaints about BIS certified items are examined and evaluated regularly for remedy.