The Bureau of Indian Standards: assistance to the country's exporters

As India's national standards body, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has undertaken various measures to assist the country's exporters in developing and managing the quality of their goods and services, to make them increasingly competitive on the international market. It has adopted i...

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Published in:	International trade forum 1993-01 (3/1993), p.8
Main Author:	Sohrab, By
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	Accreditation Advantages Associations, institutions, etc Case studies Certification Civil engineering CONTROL DE CALIDAD CONTROLE DE QUALITE EQUIPMENT CERTIFICATION Exporters Exports Government agencies HOMOLOGACION DE MAQUINARIA HOMOLOGATION DU MATERIEL INDE INDIA International organizations International trade ISO standards Management Manufacturers Manufacturing Mechanical engineering NORMAS NORME Process controls Production capacity Quality control QUALITY CONTROLS Quality standards Societies Standardization State government Surveillance Testing laboratories Textiles Trade promotion
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Summary:	As India's national standards body, the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has undertaken various measures to assist the country's exporters in developing and managing the quality of their goods and services, to make them increasingly competitive on the international market. It has adopted internationally accepted practices in the formulation of standards and operates a 3rd-party certification scheme of both products and quality systems for the benefit of exporters. In addition, the BIS plays a general educational role in promoting the concept of quality and standardization in the business sector. The BIS started to harmonize Indian standards with international standards in 1984 for the following purposes: 1. to facilitate imports and promote exports of goods and services, 2. to assist in the transfer of technology, 3. to raise the status of national standards, and 4. to optimize resources of the BIS by avoiding prolonged deliberations in the committees preparing standards.
ISSN:	0020-8957 1564-5304