The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has launched Smart Registration at an event held in New Delhi, recently. The ceremony witnessed the secretary of the Department of Consumer Affairs, Avinash Kumar Srivastava, as the chief guest along with the secretary of the Ministry of Electronic and Information Technology, Ajay Prakash Sawhney, the director general of BIS, Surina Rajan and the ADG of BIS, CB Singh. The event saw more than 250 manufactures and 100 associations at the launch.
Under the Compulsory Registration Scheme, CRS for more than 50 products, BIS has been continuously redesigning and improving operations to ensure efficiency and credibility of schemes for the benefit of consumers. This year, the BIS CRS scheme has taken a giant step to become smarter by adopting technology and revamping its process that will be entirely system driven.
Lauding the efforts of BIS, Sawhney said, “India is one of the largest consumers of digital technology and keeping this in mind, the new CRS will go a long way to fast-track implementation and drive faster turn-around times.” He added that the new registration process will help promote manufacturing ecosystem in the country. “The National Policy on Electronics in 2012 (NPE 2012), provided a road map for the development of the electronics sector in the country and envisages to create a globally competitive Electronics System Design and Manufacturing (ESDM) industry to meet the country’s needs and to serve the international market,” added Sawhney.
The BIS DG said that Standards work as a backbone for the well-being of society at large, protecting the interests of the consumer. “The Smart Registration is a definite move towards our solemn vision to be digital and advanced. Building upon the foundations laid under the aegis of the Digital India programme, BIS envisages developing an ecosystem where technologies play a significant role in standardisation and conformity assessment.”
The CRS Android App is a tool for scheme credibility and transparency for consumers, which is enabled to verify the registration number of the product. In tune with the technologically driven era, BIS is in the process to expand the usage of technology and machine learning for all its certifications and processes.