The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) will increase its activities to promote its various quality norms through engagement organisations and NGOs. As a part of Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav 'Iconic Week' celebrations, a webinar was organized at BIS headquarters on 'Engagement of Consumer Organization & NGOs in Standards Promotion Activities of BIS', an official statement said.
While inaugurating webinar, Pramod Kumar Tiwari, Director General, BIS, explained about the genesis of consumer movement in different parts of world and important role it played in improving quality ecosystem.
He also highlighted role of consumer organisations and NGOs in development of standards and how they act as a bridge between government, regulators and common consumers. "Tiwari also explained need for intensifying Standards Promotion activities of BIS," statement said. During webinar, the participants were informed about recent guidelines of BIS for engagement of Consumer Organizations and NGOs in work of standards promotion activities including formation and operation of Standards Clubs, awareness programmes, door-to-door campaigns.
Consumer Engagement Portal, recently developed by BIS was also demonstrated to participants. The features included easy registration of Consumer Organizations and NGOs with BIS using their unique NGO Darpan ID and PAN Card Number.
The processes related to viewing guidelines issued by BIS, programmes offered by BIS for collaboration and submission of proposals by COs / NGOs were also demonstrated. The consumer organizations and NGOs actively participated and welcomed this initiative of BIS. They also expressed that they are looking forward to collaborating with BIS to spread message of standards and quality country-wide.