ISI mark|registration services|How to Apply| India 2020

ISI stands for the Indian Standards Institute a body set up in 1947, to create standards needed for orderly commercial growth and quality in industrial products. However after functioning for couple of years Indian government decided to bring a couple of changes in the standardization process. Hence in the year 1986, came the new and stronger body for the standardization of Indian industrial products known as Bureau of India Standards {BIS], which than took over ISI. But the term ISI continues to be used for assurance that certain product confirm to the quality standard set up by the government. BIS allot the ISI mark to any product as third party guarrantte after ensuring its quality, efficiency and reliability.

The BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) has changed its objective from testing to industrial products, and it currently aims at satisfying the consumers and also undertakes various quality certification activities. The use of ISI mark is mandatory and voluntary for certain products. There are 16 broad categories of products including textiles, automobile components, packaged water, food, plastic products and electronics BIS has laid down standards. BIS is authorized by a legislation of 1986 to offer products certification.

How to apply for the ISI mark registration?

Any manufacturer and business owner who feels confident enough that his product has the ability to meet the BIS standards can apply for the certification in two ways:-

• Submitting an application at nearest BIS office. A BIS officer will then visit your manufacturing unit to inspect for the quality of product capability of the product to evaluate the quality standards. If the sample evaluation is satisfactory and passes the test, a license is granted and the manufacturer can use the ISI mark.
• The manufacturer provides test reports to BIS it gets the product tested in the bureau lab’s and gets the documents certified independently.