NEW DELHI: The government’s standards organization has asked all malls and airports to ensure no non-BIS certified toys are sold within their premises. Indian has banned the sale of non-BIS certified toys from January 1.
Chief of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), Pramod Kumar Tiwari said they have sensitised the stakeholders about the new norm and for complete compliance. He said so far 250 toy manufacturers have obtained the BIS certification. Only seven months back there was not a single BIS certified manufacturer in India.
Sources said about 100 foreign companies have applied for licences, but so far none of them has got it. They added the primary aim of making BIS certification mandatory was to boost domestic manufacturing.
Gold hallmarking is a purity certification of the precious metal and is voluntary in nature at present. The Centre, in November 2019, had announced that hallmarking of gold jewellery and artefacts would be made mandatory across the country from January 15, 2021. The government had given jewellers more than a year to shift to hallmarking and register themselves with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). But the deadline was extended for four months till June 1 after the jewellers sought more time to implement in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. “No extension has been sought. BIS is already fully energised and involved in giving approvals to jewellers for hallmarking,” Consumer Affairs Secretary Leena Nandan said.
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No further extension sought: Nandan
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No further extension sought: Nandan
The Centre will go ahead with its plan to mandate hallmarking of gold jewellery from June 1. The plan had been delayed due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
Last year, the then Union Minister for Consumer Affairs Ram Vilas Paswan had announced January 2021 as the deadline, but jewellers had been given an extension.
No further extension has been sought, Consumer Affairs Secretary Leena Nandan said at a virtual press conference. Gold hallmarking is a purity certification and is voluntary at present.
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BIS offers reduction in annual marking fee to micro industries, women enterprenuers and start-ups
The Bureau of Indian Standards has decided to bring more than 80 per cent of the products that come under its purview under a simplified licensing procedure to enable manufacturers to get licence within one month.
As part of various initiatives to reduce compliance burden, it has also decided to bring down the annual minimum marking fee paid by micro enterprises, start-ups and women entrepreneurs for BIS certification.
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