CURRENT AFFAIRS

Detailed explanation-1: -Bureau of Indian Standards signs MoU with IIT Roorkee for establishment of ‘BIS Standardization Chair Professor’

Detailed explanation-2: -BIS is the National Standard Body of India established under the BIS Act 2016 for the harmonious development of the activities of standardization, marking and quality certification of goods and for matters connected therewith or incidental thereto.

Detailed explanation-3: -Conducted by: National Institute of Training for Standardization, Bureau of Indian Standards, A 20 & 21, Institutional Area, Sector- 62, NOIDA-201309, U.P., Phone:0120- 4670227, 232.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bureau of Indian standards (BIS) came into existence, through an act of parliament dated 26 November 1986, on 1 April 1987, with a broadened scope and more powers taking over the staff, assets, liabilities and functions of erstwhile ISI.