Consumer Participation in Standards

Several months back there was conversation that the standards body of India is taking up formation of after sales services standards for white goods and gadgets. What is the status of that project....

PERC or percholoroethylene is widely being used in dry cleaning in India. It is highly cancerous, affects kidney, liver and central nervous system. Study by ngo toxiclink found 75% drycleaning samp...

Attached is the list of products under mandatory ISI certification. We request all members to share your inputs on any daily use products that you suggest should be considered for manda...

On Akshaya Tritiya, some tips on how you can identify real gold: 1. Nitric Acid Test: This is among the most effective ways to understand the purity of gold. Here, what you c...

Below are some of the key issues identified by members of LocalCircles in regards to Education Services in India. Kindly review the same and if you have inputs on specific standards that if defined...

Below are the key expectations of citizens from a Smart City in India. Kindly review the same and if you have inputs on what should be the Standards for a Smart City in India, please share the same...

Below are some of the key issues identified by members of LocalCircles in regards to Construction Services in India. Kindly review them and share inputs on how specifically standards can help in ad...

One of the circle members Shri Nitin Gupta had shared these inputs in Health circle of Delhi NCR. The same may be considered for making hospital standards by BIS. A) Information and tran...

Leading brands like Dell and Apple are fooling consumers by shipping defective products. Once defect is found say 3-4 months in use one can spend lots of hours on phone or following warranty proces...

There are many gaming centers now in India like smaash, funzones, hang out, playbox etc who have fancy equipment like bouncies, trampoline, slides etc and from time to time one keeps hearing of acc...