 "BIS, Bureau of Indian Standards")
Twenty-nine licences have been granted to foreign toy manufacturing units in various countries including Hungary and Thailand under Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) foreign manufacturers certification scheme. Vietnamese manufacturers were issued the maximum licences. However, no licence was granted to Chinese units.
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.
In a written reply to Rajya Sabha, Union minister of State for Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ashwini Kumar Choubey said that 3 licences have been granted in financial year 2021-2022
