- ‘QUICK’ Model – Quality, Uniformity through One Nation One Standard, International Mindset, Conformity Assessment and Knowledge Sharing.
- Mantra should be Quick Action, Quick Response, and Quick Absorption of best practices and Quicker Ways of Working.
- Work towards ensuring India’s recognition on the global stage as a quality conscious country, as a country with which people can do business with confidence.
Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
- Works under the aegis of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution.
- Headquarters – New Delhi.
- BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016 (The Act replaced Bureau of Indian Standards Act, 1986).
- It is responsible for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected.
- BIS has been providing traceability and tangibility benefits to the national economy in a number of ways:
- providing safe reliable quality goods;
- minimizing health hazards to consumers;
- promoting exports and imports substitute;
- Control over proliferation of varieties etc. through standardization, certification and testing.
Source: PIB and bis.gov.in
