To protect consumer with the spurious quality of products, BIS operates various conformity assessment schemes. Under these schemes, BIS grants licenses/registration to Indian and international manufactures.

Before granting the licence, the conformity of the products is checked against applicable Indian Standards. Here the role of a competent laboratory comes in picture. To serve the nation with a quality product and also to protect our valuable consumers, BIS took a step forward in early sixties and developed 1st laboratory at BIS, Head Quarters in 1962 in the basement of Manakalaya. Readmore »