The fig of applications for getting mandatory prime certificates instituted by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for assorted products has gone up by 15% successful 2024-25 than the erstwhile year, according to V. Ramesh, Director, BIS, Coimbatore branch.
He said present connected Sunday that the BIS had included 400 products nether the database of mandatory certificates successful the past 4 years. It was compulsory for manufacturers to get BIS certification for the listed products earlier marketing. Awareness among the entrepreneurs to get BIS certification had gone up substantially successful caller years. The fig of applications for the prime certificates had gone up by 15% during the past fiscal twelvemonth than the erstwhile year, thereby indicating that the manufacturers had been giving value to nutrient products that met the prime standards developed by the BIS.
Similarly, Mr. Ramesh said consciousness among the customers connected buying BIS certified products had gone up. Though the rates of prime certified products were higher than the uncertified products, the latest inclination suggested that the customers had been showing involvement to bargain lone prime products. However, the marketplace was inactive mostly driven by terms and not by quality. To alteration the marketplace driven by quality, the BIS had taken up a fig of initiatives to make consciousness among the manufacturers, technocrats, traders, merchants, consumers, and others connected producing, marketing, and buying products that met the prime certificates.
He said that galore products were inactive not brought nether the mandatory certificate list. The BIS had taken steps to bring much products nether the mandatory list. However, the manufacturers had been asked not to hold for inclusion successful the mandatory list. The BIS had developed astir 24,000 standards. The manufacturers could travel the prime standards prescribed by the BIS and they could use for BIS certification for non-listed products. It would fetch not lone goodwill but besides bully prices for their products.
