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The Indian government plans to expand the mandatory quality standard certification to include 1,500-2,000 products in the next 2-3 years, according to Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Piyush Goyal..
Goyal highlighted the importance of setting and maintaining quality standards, stating that they are crucial for sustainable development..
Goyal, while addressing the BIS-organised event to commemorate 'World Standards Day', said prior to 2014, about 14 quality control orders were issued covering only 106 products under mandatory certification...
"However, in the last nine years, our government has issued 126 QCOs bringing 508 products under the ambit of mandatory certification," he said.. There has been a huge increase in the number of products that have been brought under the mandatory certification..
"It is not just medical devices that need to conform with standards but the entire process in the hospitals...India should become a quality-conscious nation," he said.. Special secretary in the Consumer Affairs Ministry Nidhi Khare said, "By recognising standards as integral to SDG success, we acknowledge that these standards are not just technical guidelines but tools for driving positive change, which provide practical solutions to complex problems and help measure progress towards the SDGs"...
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