Economy > Economy - general
14 April 2021
The services of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) are now available free of cost for everyone, BIS Director General P K Tiwari said in his virtual address to the media on Tuesday.
He said, for the benefit of industry, particularly the MSME sector, Indian Standards are now available free of cost, and can be downloaded from the Standardisation Portal of e-BIS.
Standardisation of production is planned to be achieved through a combination of processes engineering, automation and manpower augmentation, he said.
Towards this, BIS arranges quarterly meetings of sectional committees, stage-wise timeframe for every standard under development or revision, makes action research an integral part of the process and broad-bands consultation process through standardisation cells in ministries and industry associations.
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The Bureau of Indian Standards has decided to bring more than 80 per cent of the products that come under its purview under a simplified licensing procedure to enable manufacturers to get licence within one month.
As part of various initiatives to reduce compliance burden, it has also decided to bring down the annual minimum marking fee paid by micro enterprises, start-ups and women entrepreneurs for BIS certification.