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Attend meetings or leave: Piyush Goyal s stern warning to members of BIS governing council
The minister asked Pramod Kumar Tiwari, DG Bureau of Indian Standards to keep a tab on those in attendance. Those who miss two or three meetings at a stretch, please send them a letter asking them whether they want to continue, he said
Anwesha Madhukalya | March 2, 2021 | Updated 14:01 IST
Piyush Goyal at BIS meeting
Union Minister Piyush Goyal lambasted some members of the Governing Council Bureau of Indian Standards for disabling their video during an online conference call. The minister during the meeting on March 1, said that it is difficult to figure out if people are seriously attending the meeting or wandering about by keeping the video on blank. If you switch on the video, I will be able to know if you are actually attending the meeting, he said. Goyal said that it is easier to see if everyone is showing interest if the video is on.
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AAA Teams from the Hubballi branch of Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) conducted search and seizure operations at two locations in Koppal recently and registered two cases of misuse of ISI marking without valid certification.
According to a release, the raids were carried out on February 9 in Koppal under the direction of the Director General of BIS, Pramod Kumar Tiwari. The investigation was initiated by S.D. Selvan, head of the Hubballi branch office. A discrete investigation preceded the searches, the release said.
Scientist Rakesh Tanneeru led a team to conduct the search at A.R. Industries, located at Kutuganahalli village post, Ginigera taluk, Koppal district, and found that the firm was manufacturing and supplying packaged drinking water (other than packaged natural mineral water) as per IS 14543:2016 with BIS mark, without the valid BIS licence. The team found the BIS-standard mark on 1 litre, 2 litre, and 500 ml PET bottles and polyethylene flexi