Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, June 29: The Government has re-constituted State Level Committee on Standardization and Quality Control in Jammu and Kashmir.
Headed by Administrative Secretary, Industries and Comm-erce as its Chairman, the 24-member committee shall ascertain the existing level of quality of the products manufactured and marketed in the State, to identify areas where quality improvement is needed and to take appropriate measures.
Development Commissioner (Power), J&K; Managing Director, SIDCO; MD, SICOP; Director, Handloom; Director, Handicrafts; Director, Indust-ries and Commerce, Jammu/ Kashmir; Director, Entrepr-eneurs Development Institute, J&K; Director, Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises Develo-pment Institute, J&K, Jammu (representative of training institution imparting training connected with standardization quality testing, etc); Director, BIS, J&K Branch office, Bari-Brahmana; president, Feder-ation Chamber of Industries, Kashmir (representatives of manufacturing/ training associations); president Kashmir Chamber of Commerce and Industry; president, Association of Small Scale Industries Jammu and representative (not below the rank of Special Secretary) of various departments, including Planning, Development and Monitoring Department, Agriculture Production, Public Works (R&B), PDD, Housing & Urban Development, ARI & Training, Health & Medical Education, Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs and Higher Education Department will be members of the committee, which shall co-ordinate the efforts of quality service agencies so as to avoid duplication and to ensure that these agencies operate towards overall improvement of the quality of products.
It shall also identify the training needs of purchase organization, quality control personnel, particularly in Small Scale Units, agencies operating quality control system in the State etc and suggest organizing of suitable programmes by the various training institutions in a coordinated and purposeful manner.
The committee shall interact with the various purchasing departments with regard to the procurement of quality goods, particularly with Bureau of Indian Standards mark and to provide required information and assistance. It shall coordinate the efforts of Government of J&K to induce State entrepreneurs to go in for BIS mark to improve the availability of such goods and also to strengthen their marketability in the State Government purchase and outside the State boundaries; and for this purpose, to recommend to the Government to provide fiscal benefits, concession, etc, to the manufacturers of BIS marked goods.
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