BIS celebrates World Standards Day
Pioneer, Delhi   22-Oct-2020

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the national standards body, celebrated the World Standards Day on October 14.

The day is celebrated to pay tributes to the collaborative efforts of thousands of experts worldwide for developing national and international standards. Themes for celebrations for each year are decided by the international standardisation bodies namely the ISO, IEC and the ITU. This year’s theme was, Protecting the planet with standards, for which BIS organised a number of programmes throughout India.

The main programme was held at the headquarters, inaugurated by Leena Nandan, Secretary, Ministry of Consumer Affairs. In her inaugural address, Nandan appreciated the efforts of BIS in formulation of standards relevant to the businesses. Nandan presented the Solid Waste Management Quality awards to the representatives of Resident Welfare Associations of Noida. While presenting the awards, she complimented BIS for engaging with the community and taking the benefits of its various activities to the masses. She also felicitated the two Indian experts who were awarded the IEC 1906 awards for their technical contribution for furthering standardisation in the field of electrotechnology.

Nidhi Khare, Additional Secretary presented the keynote address and emphasised the need for adopting a sustainable living instead of exploiting the limited resources which could be detrimental to the planet. She stressed on making such standards which promote environmental friendliness.

In his welcome address, Pramod Kumar Tiwari, Director General, BIS highlighted the recent initiatives taken by the body for strengthening the standardisation process and the importance of standards in national economy. He informed that government departments and industry associations have created standardisation cells which would greatly enhance their effective participation in making the standards relevant to the present day and futuristic needs. He also presented the online portal developed by BIS for the Standards Developing Organisations (SDOs) which would serve as a collaborating platform for SDOs to formulate standards and achieve the vision of “One Nation, One Standard”.

During his vote of thanks, NK Kansara, Dy Director General (Policy, Research & Training) informed about the programmes being held on the occasion. They included workshops with consumer groups, state government departments and manufacturers, competitions at schools and colleges and seminars on the topics relevant to the theme.

The inaugural session was followed by two technical sessions wherein presentation were made by experts and eminent personalities namely, Dr SSV Ramakumar, Director R&D, IOCL, Vimal Mahendru, Chairman, IEC Systems Committee & IEC Ambassador, J Roy Chaudhary, Dy Director General, BIS and Dr Debajit Palit, TERI.

Second technical session, held in collaboration with IEEE was conducted in hybrid i.e., physical & VC mode during which presentations were made by experts drawn from the fields of greenhouse gases, IT & electronics. During the session, the two Indian awardees of ISO poster competition were also felicitated.