Jindal Stainless Limited (JSL) has received Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS)
certification for manufacture of stainless steel flat products. The national standards making
body on Tuesday announced a series of changes including the much sought after simplified procedure for its ISI mark certification
programme. A simplified scheme to grant license to the products under mandatory certification will greatly reduce the time taken for grant
of license, Director General,BIS, Alka Panda said at a joint session organized by BIS and the Indian Stainless Steel Development
Association (ISSDA) in New Delhi.
Panda reiterated the need to have more BIS standards for commonly used products so that the consumer is not cheated into buying sub
standard, spurious products which have now flooded the market. She also added that BIS and industry association such as ISSDA should
conduct more awareness programs in order to bring to the knowledge of the common man the existence of such standards. In fact the BIS
slogan of "Jago grahak jago" is a step towards educating the common man into buying good quality products irrespective of whether they
are 'over the counter products' or manufactured goods like stainless steel.
The need for a quality control order in stainless steel was driven by the ministry of Steel as it had already successfully notified the quality
control order of carbon steel products. A recent notification of the Ministry of Steel, the GOI has brought three BIS standards (namely IS
6911, IS 5522 and IS 15997) into the ambit of the quality control order which means that all grades of stainless which have been
mentioned in the three BIS standards must be certified by BIS irrespective of whether it is manufactured in India or imported into the
country. Out of these three standards, two standards are for utensils and kitchenware application since over 52% of the country's stainless
consumption in the country goes into utensils and kitchenware.
SOurce: ET