Bureau of Indian Standards

About the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS):

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the National Standards Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016.

• Objective: Harmonious development of the activities of standardisation, and quality assurance of goods and articles.
• It works under the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
• BIS represents India in International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC).

What is ISO?

• It is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 167 national standard bodies.
• Through its members, it brings together experts to share knowledge and develop voluntary, consensus-based, market-relevant International Standards that support innovation and provide solutions to global challenges.

What is IEC?

• The IEC is a global, not-for-profit membership organization, whose work underpins quality infrastructure and international trade in electrical and electronic goods.
• The IEC brings together more than 170 countries and provides a global, neutral and independent standardization platform to 20 000 experts globally.
• It administers 4 Conformity assessment systems whose members certify that devices, systems, installations, services and people work as required.

 

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Q1)  How many standards are there in BIS?

There are around 20,000 standards formulated by BIS so far through about 1,000 technical committees involving around more than 15,000 experts.

Source: Bureau of Indian Standards published 21,890 standards for products, process specification, service sectors, code of practice and methods of test terminology