NEW DELHI: Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan on Monday launched a mobile app BIS-Care, which consumers can use for checking the authenticity of ISI and hallmark quality certified products.
The Minister also launched three portals of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) on standardisation, conformity assessment and training, which consumers and stakeholders can login through www.Manakonline.In.
The BIS is the national standards setting body in the country. So far, it has set 20,866 standards and mandatory standards for 358 products. The ISI mark is a standards-compliance mark for industrial products in India since 1955. Hallmark is quality certification for gold jewellery. (AGENCIES)