Bureau Of Indian Standards

Toys have to get the Bureau of Indian Standards' certification and meet its safety norms

Addressing a press conference, BIS Director General Pramod Kumar Tiwari said the Bureau has already framed standards on the glossary of yoga terminology, yoga mat and yoga centre

The subjects for the lesson plans are largely related to products used in day-to-day life and have been chosen based on relevance to education as part of the course curriculum

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come out with new guidelines to enhance safety in transportation of dangerous, hazardous goods posing threat to public safety, properties and environment. The guidelines provide in detail precautions to be taken for packaging, handling and transportation of such hazardous goods. The guidelines are meant for all stakeholders including vehicle owners, transport agencies, contractors, consignors, consignees, operators and drivers. According to an official statement, the BIS has recently published 'IS 18149:2023 - Transportation of Dangerous Goods Guidelines', which have been formulated under the Transport Services Sectional Committee, SSD 01, of BIS. The new guidelines are expected to set a new benchmark for the safe handling and transportation of hazardous materials across the country. "With the aim of standardizing the transportation practices, the BIS guidelines will help ensure that hazardous goods are transported in a safe and secure man

BIS has proposed Quality Control Orders (QCO) for 663 products in the coming time

'We are working to modernise the grievance redress mechanism and bring it up to international standards'

During the search and seizure operations conducted by the Bureau of Indian Standards, a quantity of 9,565 and 30,229 was seized during the years 2021-22 and 2022-23 (up to Jan 25, 2023), respectively

Sixteen licences were issued to Vietnamese units, four licences to Malaysian units and the rest were issued to Hungary, Indonesia, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Czech Republic

The CBIC on Saturday said the customs department is closely monitoring import of toys and continuously tackling newer modus operandi adopted to circumvent the quality control and safety norms. The government earlier this week said 18,600 toys have been seized in the last one month from major retail stores, including those of Hamleys and Archies, at airports and malls across India for lack of BIS quality mark and use of fake licences. In a tweet, the Central Board of Indirect Taxes and Customs (CBIC) said the customs department is engaged with both BIS and the DGFT (Directorate General of Foreign Trade) to thwart attempts of circumventing the quality control and safety checks. It said newer modus operandi adopted to circumvent the BIS restrictions by way of imports of parts of toys, staggered import of such parts through different ports, and misdeclaration of toys and their parts as entirely different items is being "continuously tackled". "Indian Customs has been closely monitoring

On the non-compliance of quality standards, a penalty will be imposed on the manufacturers. However, retailers and wholesalers will also be held accountable

India must recognise and accept the importance of quality: Piyush Goyal

Deadline follows EU's timeline for uniform charging ports' standards, says civil servant

According to the guidelines, published on November 23, the companies will have to ensure that the ratings and reviews of their products are genuine

As the government plans to introduce two common types of charging ports for mobiles and wearable electronic devices, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has come out with quality standards for USB Type-C charging port, according to a senior consumer affairs ministry official. In the interest of consumers and to reduce e-waste, the Department of Consumer Affairs in consultations with the industry stakeholders is mulling mandating two types of common charging ports -- a USB Type-C charger for mobiles, smartphones, and tablets, and the other common charger for wearable electronic devices. "In the last meeting, a broad consensus had emerged among stakeholders on the adoption of USB Type C as a charging port for, smartphones, tablets, laptops etc. The BIS has notified standards for Type C charger," Consumer Affairs Secretary Rohit Kumar Singh told PTI. The Indian Institute of Technology (IIT)-Kanpur is studying single charging port for wearable electronic devices like watches, etc. Onc

Ashwini Kumar Choubey says the standards also facilitate trade, provide investment confidence, foster innovation and support govt policies and regulations

India's e-commerce market is estimated at $50 billion in 2022, and is expected to grow to more than 25 per cent per annum to reach $150-170 billion by 2027

The government is working to extend Rs 3,500 crore worth of production linked incentive benefits to toys, which are compliant with the norms of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), with an aim to make domestic manufacturing globally competitive, attracting investments and enhancing exports, an official said. The official said that the measures announced by the government for the toys industry like introduction of quality control orders and increasing customs duties from 20 per cent to 60 per cent has helped in cutting down sub-standard imports and promoting domestic manufacturing in the country. "Now we are working to extend PLI (production linked incentive) benefits for toys, but it will be given to BIS-compliant toys only. PLI benefits can be given according to different investment slabs which can range from Rs 25 crore to Rs 50 crore or Rs 100-200 crore," the official added. The proposal is to give the incentives on the full product and not on components as the industry still needs

Institutes will set up 'BIS Standardisation Chair Professor' as part of agreement

As far as platforms like Google and Meta go, the new rules will require them to validate the real person behind the review through specified six-right mechanisms

The Department of Consumer Affairs framed the guidelines after it received a slew of complaints about fake reviews of products being posted by several e-commerce companies on web portals