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Who we are

NGBO was started as an inspection office in 1983 & major control for the inspection office was exercised by the Mumbai office. From 01 January 1997 Nagpur office became a full-fledged Branch Office & started its functioning at second floor, NIT Building, Gokulpeth, Nagpur. Initially NGBO had 11 district of Vidarbha region of Maharashtra under its jurisdiction. Later, 2 more districts were added to same and NGBO has its territorial jurisdiction over 13 districts of Maharashtra State with effect from 01 March 2021 as under:

Nagpur
Chandrapur
Yavatmal
Bhandara
Gondia
Gadchiroli
Wardha
Amravati
Akola
Buldhana
Washim
Nanded
Hingoli

Recently, 13 more districts were added to same and NGBO has its territorial jurisdiction over 26 districts of Maharashtra, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana with effect from 01 February 2023 as under:

Adilabad (Telangana)
Betul (Madhya Pradesh)
Burhanpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Jabalpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Mandla (Madhya Pradesh)
Narsinghpur (Madhya Pradesh)
Umaria (Madhya Pradesh)
Chhindwara (Madhya Pradesh)
Seoni (Madhya Pradesh)
Balaghat (Madhya Pradesh)
Parbhani (Maharashtra)
Jalna (Maharashtra)
Jalgaon (Maharashtra)

NGBO is operating more than 1000 Certification Marks Licenses for various products, which may be broadly covered under, Electrical, Civil, Mechanical, Metallurgy Engineering and Food & Chemical. NGBO has more than 3000 registration for hallmarking & currently 24 Assaying and Hallmarking Centers are working as under:

Nagpur – 09 Nos of AHC Center
Jalgaon – 04 Nos of AHC Center
Nanded – 03 Nos of AHC Center
Jabalpur – 03 Nos of AHC Center
Jalna – 01 Nos of AHC Center
Akola – 01 Nos of AHC Center
Amravati – 01 Nos of AHC Center
Wardha – 01 Nos of AHC Center
Yavatmla – 01 Nos of AHC Center

NGBO also organizes various awareness programmes for consumers through consumer organizations/NGOs/SHGs etc. With an aim and objective of promoting standardization and certification among industries in the region NGBO organizes meetings/workshops/seminars with various industries association and sector wise industrial groups. NGBO also approaches various government departments for promotion of Indian Standards and use of same in their procurement. Various workshops and seminars are organized on various topics like Water supplies, Construction sector etc.

Last Updated on February 5, 2025