{"id":6044,"date":"2024-09-06T12:33:04","date_gmt":"2024-09-06T07:03:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=6044"},"modified":"2025-03-27T12:27:16","modified_gmt":"2025-03-27T06:57:16","slug":"national-testing-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-testing-house\/","title":{"rendered":"National Test House"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Test House:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a premier institution under the <strong>Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food &amp; Public Distribution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It has been serving the nation <strong>since 1912.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is India&#8217;s largest <strong>multi-location multidisciplinary<\/strong> industrial central government&#8217;s testing laboratory dealing with almost all sorts of testing, calibration and quality evaluation related to industry, commerce, trade etc. as per international and national standards.<\/li>\n<li>It offers technical consultancy, testing, calibration, and quality evaluation across various sectors, adhering to both national and international standards.<\/li>\n<li>It is the pioneering governmental entity in India <strong>for drone certification<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Its branches are established at Kolkata, Mumbai, Chennai, Ghaziabad, Jaipur, Guwahati, and Varanasi.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Key facts about Bureau of Energy Efficiency<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It was established in 2002 under the provisions of the <strong>Energy Conservation Act, 2001.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> The primary objective of BEE is to reduce energy intensity in the Indian economy.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Function<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It coordinates with <strong>designated consumers, designated agencies<\/strong> and other organizations; recognizes, identifies and utilizes the existing resources and infrastructure, in performing the functions assigned to it under the Energy Conservation Act.<\/li>\n<li>The EC Act provides for regulatory and pro\u00admotional functions which are assigned to the organisation.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Regulatory functions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Develop minimum energy performance standards for equipment and appliances under Standards and Labelling<\/li>\n<li>Develop minimum energy performance standards for Commercial Buildings<\/li>\n<li>Develop Energy Consumption Norms for Designated Consumers<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nodal Ministry:<\/strong> Ministry of Power<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is Renewable energy?<\/h3>\n<p>It is energy derived from natural sources that are replenished at a higher rate than they are consumed. Sunlight and wind, for example, are such sources that are constantly being replenished. Renewable energy sources are plentiful and all around us.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source: <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleaseIframePage.aspx?PRID=2051451\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">National Test House signs Memorandum of Understanding with Bureau of Energy Efficiency to promote energy efficiency in India<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Test House is a premier institution under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food &#038; Public Distribution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6045,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6044","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6045"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}