The rapid growth of the Indian economy, its size and emerging relevance in global trade, make it essential to establish a robust ‘Quality Infrastructure’ in India with a harmonized, dynamic, and mature standards ecosystem. This would fuel economic growth and enhance the ‘Made in India’ label. Standards have been widely recognized as catalysts for technical development, industrial growth, well-being of the society and more recently for convergence of new and emerging technologies. Countries are accordingly evolving strategies to synergize standardization work with technological, social and economic development at the national level as well as to influence global standardization efforts.
The Department of Commerce, Government of India has now come up with a Draft Indian National Strategy for Standardization (INSS). The Strategy considers the current state of development across sectors, the existing quality infrastructure and the policy directions in relation to domestic economic developments and trade in goods and services. It is the result of a broad consensus arrived over consultations held over a four-year period from 2014 to 2017 through national and regional standards conclaves that attracted wide participation of experts and stakeholders from union and state governments, industry, regulatory bodies, national and overseas standards and conformity assessment bodies, academics, and international forums.
You can contribute to the formulation of this strategy: check out the strategy here and e-mail your comments /inputs to [email protected] by 30th March, 2018.
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