{"id":9722,"date":"2022-10-08T09:22:43","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T03:52:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=9722"},"modified":"2025-03-29T15:02:57","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T09:32:57","slug":"bureau-of-indian-standards-bis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bureau-of-indian-standards-bis\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>What is BIS?<\/strong>\u00a0BIS is the\u00a0<strong>National Standards Body of India\u00a0<\/strong>under Department of Consumer affairs,\u00a0<strong>Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food &amp; Public Distribution.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Status:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a statutory body established by the Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 2016 which came into effect on 12 October 2017.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>: BIS is involved in various activities such as Standards Formulation, Product Certification Scheme, Hall Marking Scheme, Laboratory Services etc.<\/li>\n<li><strong>HQ:<\/strong>\u00a0New Delhi.<\/li>\n<li>The Minister in charge of the Ministry or Department having administrative control of the BIS is the ex-officio President of the BIS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h2><strong>Testing, Inspection, Certification Council<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>It is an\u00a0<strong>international non-profit association<\/strong>\u00a0acting as the voice of the testing, inspection and certification industry.<\/li>\n<li>The TIC Council engages governments and key stakeholders to advocate for effective solutions that protect the public, facilitate trade and support innovation.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>Source :\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1865818\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">PIB<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Bureau of Indian Standards is National Standards Body of India under Department of Consumer affairs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":9723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9722","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\/9722","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=9722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}