Manak Bhavan
9 Bahadur Shah Zafar Marg
New Delhi 110 002, India
Tel : +91 11 23230131, 23233375, 23239402 (10 lines)
Fax : +91 11 23234062, 23239399, 23239382
Email : info@bis.org.in
PURPOSE
During the pre independence period, standardization activity was sporadic
and confined mainly to a few Government purchasing organization. However,
immediately after independence, economic development through coordinated
utilization of resources was called for and the government recognized
the …… role for standardization in gearing industry to competitive efficiency
and quality production. The Indian Standards Institution (ISI) was, therefore,
set up in 1947 as a registered society, under a Government of India resolution.
The Indian Standards Institution gave the nation the standards it needed
for nationalization, orderly industrial and commercial growth, quality
production and competitive efficiency. However, in 1986 the government
recognized the need for streagthening this National Standards Body due
to fast changing socio-economic scenario and according it a statutory
status. Thus came the Bureau of Indian Standards Act 1986 and on 1 April
1987, newly formed BIS took over staff assets, liabilities and functions
of erstwhile ISI. Through this change over, the Government envisaged building
of the climate of quality culture and conciousness and greater participation
of consumers in formulation and implementation of National Standards.
OBJECTIVES
- Harmonious development of standardization, marking and quality certification
- To provide new thrust to standardization and quality control
- To evolve a national strategy for according recognition to standards
and integrating them with growth and development of production and exports
BIS is engaged in formulation of Indian
Standards for the
following sectors:
Basic & Production Engineering
Chemicals
Civil Engineering
Electronics and Information Technology
Electrotechnical
Food and Agriculture
Mechanical Engineering
Management and Systems
Medical Equipment and Hospital Planning
Metallurgical Engineering
Petroleum Coal and Related Products
Transport Engineering
Textile
Water Resources
Each of these sectors
has a Division Council to oversee and supervise its work.
BIS publishes detailed Work Programme for each of the 14 Division Councils
once in a year on 1 April. The Work Programme, besides giving scope of
Division Council and Sectional Committees, contains committeewise position
of standards published and draft standards (like preliminary, wide circulation
and finalized draft standards) at different stages of preparation. The
copies of Work Programme (and also of wide circulation drafts for comments
during the wide circulation period) can be obtained from the Director
of the concerned Technical Divisions, Bureau of Indian Standards, New
Delhi.
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