1. BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS
1.1 The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the
National Standards Body of India, is a statutory
body set up under the Bureau of Indian Standards
Act, 1986. The Bureau is a body corporate and
responsible for formulating National Standards.
It comprises of members representing the Industry,
Consumer Organizations, Scientific & Research
Institutes and Professional Bodies, Technical
Institutions, Central ministries, State Governments and
Members of Parliament.
2. STANDARDS FORMULATION
2.1 Indian Standards are formulated keeping in view
national priorities, programmes for industrial
development, technological needs, export promotion,
consumer welfare, health, safety, etc. So far over
17000 standards have been formulated in different
technology areas.
3. CERTIFICATION
3.1 Product Certification - The product
certification scheme is basically voluntary in
nature and aims at providing quality, safety and
dependability to the ultimate customer. Conformity
is ensured by regular surveillance visits of the
units Performance of licensee is monitored by
surprise inspections and testing of samples, drawn
both from the factory and the market.
3.2 Eco Mark -
The Government of India had instituted a scheme in
February 1991 known as ECO mark Scheme for labeling
environment friendly products. This scheme is
administered by the Bureau of Indian Standards.
3.3 Quality Management
Systems Certification (ISO 9000) - BIS is
a national agency authorized to operate Quality
Systems Certification in India. It has adopted ISO
9000 series of standards as IS 9000 series Indian
Standards, and aligned the procedure for operation
of Quality Systems Certification, based on
international criteria and is comparable to any
other such systems being operated.
3.4 EMS Certification - With
the growing concern for environment friendly
industrial activity, ISO 14000 series of standards
have been developed. BIS, after adoption of these
standards as national standards, has launched
Environment Management System (EMS) Certification
(IS / ISO : 14001).
3.5 HACCP Certification -
BIS launched HACCP (Hazard Analysis Critical
Control Points) based Quality System Certification
Scheme as per the requirements of IS 15000 : 1998
standard (equivalent to Codex ALINORM 97 / 13A).
3.6 Hallmarking of Gold
Jewellery - In order to protect consumers
against victimization of irregular gold
quality.Hallmarking of gold jewellery was launched
under BIS Act, 1986. This scheme is voluntary in
nature.
4. LABORATORY TESTING,
CALIBRATION AND MANAGEMENT
4.1 The Bureau has a chain of laboratories located
in different parts of the country for conformity
testing of certified products and samples offered by
applicants for grant of licence which is an
essential feature of BIS Certification System.
Modernization of BIS Laboratories has also been
taken up.
5.
STANDARDS PROMOTION
5.1 For a wider adoption of Indian Standards by the
industry, organized purchaser, statutory bodies and universities, BIS has formulated a plan which
emphasizes on :
- Development of complementary level of
standardizaton, namely, company standardization
and association level standardization - Effective
implementation of standards through sectoral
committees, such as, steel, food, textiles,
information technology, automotives and power.
- State Level Committees on Standardization and
Quality Systems to ensure better
implementation of Indian Standards.
- Use of Indian Standards in legislation
- Greater interaction with public and private sector
undertakings
- Bulk public purchases based on standards and
standard marked products
- Use of standards in education systems
- Intensified media campaign to create awareness
6.
INTERNATIONAL
COOPERATION
6.1 BIS as a founder member of International
organization for Standardization (ISO) continues to
take an active part in international
standardization. BIS is also actively involved in
International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and
has participation status or observer status on all
the important Technical Committees.
7.
NATIONAL TRAINING
INSTITUTE
7.1 To provide training in the field of
standardization, quality control, quality management
system, environmental management system, laboratory
management, etc. to industry personnel, the National
Institute of Training for Standardization and
Quality Management has been set up. A large number
of participants from many developing countries have
been trained in several such programmes covering
standardization and Quality Systems.
8.
BIS AND CONSUMERS
8.1 Service to consumers and creating quality
consciousness among them BIS has set up a Consumer
Affairs and Public Grievances Department at
Headquarters. Nominated Public Grievance Officers at
Regional and Branch Offices to deal with consumer
complaints against BIS services and ISI marked
products
9. ENFORCEMENT
9.1 To keep an eye on misuse of standard mark, an
Enforcement Department is functioning at HQs, with
designated coordination officers in ROs and BOs.
Complaints on misuse of Standard Mark are
investigated by the Enforcement Department and
appropriate legal action is taken.
10. WESTERN REGION
10.1 The operation of the Bureau in the Western
Region comprising of Maharashtra, Gujarat, Goa,
Daman and Diu is looked after by the Western
Regional Office located at Mumbai and the branch
offices at Pune, Nagpur, Ahmedabad, Rajkot and
inspection offices at Aurangabad.
The industry is invited to avail the services
offered by the Bureau from its various offices
in Maharashtra :
Regional Office :
* Manakalaya, E - 9, MIDC, Marol, Andheri (E),
Mumbai - 400 093
* Tel. : 28329295 / 7891 / 7892 / 7858 * Fax : 022 -
28364820 * E - Mail : biswro@bom.nic.in
* Website : www.bis.org.in
Branch Offices :
* 1st Floor, Plot No. 657 - 660, Market Yard,
Gultekdi, Pune - 411 037
* Tel. : 4268659
* NIIT Building, 2nd Floor, Gokulpat Market, Nagpur
- 440 010 * Tel. :
2525171
Sales Offices :
* Western Regional Office : "Manakalaya"
E-9, Road No. 8, M.I.D.C., Andheri (E), Mumbai -
400 093
* Tel. : 28327891-92,
28329295 * Fax : 022 - 28374231 * E-mail : saleswro@bis.org.in |