BIS

Bureau of industry standards, objectives, functions, hall marking, consumer

1. Vidya jyothi institute of technology (an autonomous institute affiliated to jntuh) Department of MBA CONSUMER AWARENESS CAMP “ JAAGO GRAHAK JAAGO” on 26 OCT 2019

2. What is BIS ? The  Bureau of Indian Standards  ( BIS ) is the national Standards Body of India working under the aegis of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Foods & Public Distribution, Government of India . It is established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986 which came into effect on 23 December 1986.  A new  Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) Act 2016  which was notified on 22 nd  March, 2016, has been brought into force with effect from 12 th  October, 2017. The Act establishes the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) as the National Standards Body of India.

3. Logo of BIS

4. Objectives of BIS Harmonious development of the activities of standardization, making and quality certification of goods. To provide thrust to standardization and quality control for growth and development of industry on one hand and to meet the needs of consumers on the other.

5. Functions of BIS For protecting the consumer from hazardous products. For promoting consumer confidence. For providing a safeguard to the public health. For providing quality assurance

6. Main Activities of BIS Standards Formulation International Activities Product Certification Hallmarking Laboratory services Training services Consumer affairs and Publicity

7. Standard Formulation Chemicals Food and Agriculture Civil Department Electro-Technical Electronics & Information Technology Mechanical Engineering Management Systems Metallurgical Engineering Petroleum Coal & related products Medical equipment and Hospital Planning Textile Transport Engineering Production & General Engineering Water Resources BIS formulates Indian Standards in the line with the national priorities for various sectors that have been grouped under 14 departments like

8. International Activities International Organization for Standardization (ISO):- ISO is an independent , non-governmental membership organisation and the world’s largest developer of voluntary International standards. International Electro-Technical commission(IEC):- IEC was founded in 1906 and is the world’s leading organization for the preparation of International Standards for all Electrical, Electronic and related Technologies.

9. Product certification BIS operates a product certification scheme for ensuring compliance to Indian standards presence of BIS standard mark on a product indicates conformity to the relevant Indian standards. BIS certification scheme is voluntary in nature. However for a number of products, compliance to Indian standards made mandatory by the central government under various statutes in public interest

10. Hallmarking Hallmarking of gold jewellery was started by BIS in April 2000 to provide third party assurance to consumes on the purity of gold jewellery or its fineness. The scheme for hallmarking of silver jewellery/artefacts was launched in October 2005

11. Laboratory services To protect consumer’s interest , BIS operates various conformity assessment schemes. Under these schemes, BIS grants licenses/registrations to such manufacturers who are capable of producing goods conforming to relevant Indian Standards, on continuous basis. To support these scheme, which requires testing of products on regular basis for checking conformity to the relevant Indian Standards, BIS has established a network of eight laboratories.

12. Cont.. Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (BARC), U.P Indian Jute Industries Research Association (IJIRA), Kolkata W.B Industrial Toxicology Research Centre (ITRC), Lucknow U.P Defence Institute of Fire Research, Delhi Central Glass and Ceramic Research Institute, Kolkata W.B Central Institute of Fisheries Technology, Cochin Kerala

13. Training Services BIS imparts training through National institute of training for Standardization(NITS) to the technical and management personnel from industry, consumer organisations, public sector undertakings, government bodies The institute also conducts international training programmes for developing countries under different cooperation schemes of government of India.

14. Consumer affairs Consumer awareness programmes Industry awareness programmes Educational utilization of standards programmes