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NEW DELHI: Seeking to expand acceptability of Indian Standards in other countries, the Bureau of India Standards (BIS) has started providing complimentary copies of the Indian Standards for reference and adoption purposes to some of the developing and least developed countries such as Suriname, Indonesia and Uzbekistan.
The BIS is also in talks with Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Saudi Arabia, Sudan and Slovenia for virtual meetings on this issue, a government official said.
“The BIS has shared the Indian Standards catalogue and guidelines for adoption of Indian Standards with National Standards Bodies (NSBs) of 21 countries with whom India has cooperation arrangements,” a senior government official said. The BIS has published over 20,000 Indian Standards encompassing various sectors and around 15,000 of these are indigenous standards.
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