STANDARDIZATION ACTIVITIES IN

ELECTRICAL, ELECTRONICS AND

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY

BUREAU OF INDIAN STANDARDS

MANAK BHAWAN, 9 BAHADURSHAH ZAFAR
MARG
NEW DELHI 110002

ELECTROTECHNICAL DIVISION COUNCIL (ETDC)

&
ELECTRONICS AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DIVISION COUNCIL (LITD)

ETDC & LITDC are the apex bodies at the

national level on all matters concerning
standardization in their respective field .
2817 standards in diverse areas serving
manufacturers, power utilities, consumers, and
the government .

ETDC

The scope of ETDC provides for

Standardization in the field of electrical power
generation, transmission, distribution and
utilization equipment, insulating materials ,
winding wires , measuring and process control
instruments and primary and secondary
batteries

LITDC
Standardization in the field of Electronics &
Information Technology

Sectional Committees

Electrotechnology
Electronics and IT

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COMPOSITION OF BIS COMMITTEES

Manufacturers
Laboratories/R&D institutions
Govt./Regulatory Bodies
Consumer/User Organisations
Industry Associations
Public Sector Units
Consulting firms
Professional Bodies
Academic Institution

HISTORY OF STANDARDIZATION
ACTIVITIES

The Electrotechnical Division Council

(ETDC) was constituted in 1957.
The first standard in the field of
electrotechnology was Safety of Electrical
Appliances, IS 302-1 published in 1951.
Electronics and Information Technology
Division Council was formed later in 1977

HISTORY OF STANDARDIZATION
ACTIVITIES (cotd.)

Initially, assistance was drawn from British

Standards while drafting Indian Standards.
Subsequently, assistance was also derived
from DIN and VDE standards, especially in
the area of switchgears and motors.
Assistance was also derived from ANSI, UL
and JIS standards.

HISTORY OF STANDARDIZATION
ACTIVITIES (cotd.)

From the early 1980s, ISO/IEC standards

started to have greater international
recognition
Also, our being a signatory to GATT led to an
obligation to adopt ISO/IEC standards.
Being full member of both ISO and IEC
facilitated adoption of these standards by BIS
Several Indian standards are now based on
ISO/IEC standards.

BIS and International

Electrotechnical Commission

Member body of International Electrotechnical

Commission (IEC)
Interaction with IEC for the development of
International standards in the field of
electrotechnology .
Participating member on 42 Technical
Committees and 35 sub committees of IEC
related to electrotechnology, electronics and
IT.

International Standards
Organization (ISO)

Observer member on:

ISO/TC 117 on Industrial Fans
ISO/TC 43 on measurement of noise level of
rotating electrical machinary
ISO/TC 44 on electric welding equipment
ISO/TC 178 for lifts

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information

Technology

JTC 1 Sub-Committees
JTC1/SC 2
JTC1/SC 6
JTC1/SC 7

Coded character sets

Telecommunications and information exchange
Software and system engineering
JTC1/SC 17 Cards and personal
identification
JTC1/SC
22 Programming languages, their environments
and
system software interfaces
JTC1/SC 23 Digital storage media for information
interchange
JTC1/SC 24 Computer graphics, image processing and
environmental data representation
JTC1/SC 25 Interconnection of information technology
equipment

ISO/IEC JTC 1 Information

Technology
JTC1/SC 27 IT Security techniques
JTC1/SC 28 Office equipment
JTC1/SC 29
Coding of audio, picture, multimedia and hypermedia
information
JTC1/SC 31 Automatic identification and data capture
techniques
JTC1/SC 32 Data management and interchange
JTC1/SC 34 Document description
and processing languages
JTC1/SC 35 User interfaces
JTC1/SC 36 Information technology
for learning,
education and training
JTC1/SC 37 Biometrics

HARMONIZATION OF STANDARDS
Harmonization
of
Indian
Standards
electrotechnology:

No. of Indian Standards

2817

Harmonized with ISO/IEC standard

Identical
Technically equivalent

667
1010

IT standards brought out by JTC 1 1500

Corresponding IS published 250(approx)

in

ASPECTWISE BREAKUP OF INDIAN

STANDARDS FORMULATED BY ETDC
Aspect

No. of Standards

Percentage

Product

1246

44.24

Method of test

483

17.15

Codes of practices

276

9.79

Terminology

145

5.15

Dimensions

165

5.85

Symbols

31

1.10

Others

471

16.72

Total

2817

100.00

Products under certification

151 Standards are under BIS certification
Product wise breakup as follows :

Cables & Conductors

Capacitors
Dry Batteries
Electrical Appliances
Contd2

Products under certification

Electrical Fans and Regulators
Electric Motors
Insulating Materials
Lamps and their Accessories
Luminaires
Relays
Storage Batteries
Contd3

Products under certification

Switchgears and Controlgears
Transformers
Winding Wires
Wiring Accessories
Energy Meters
Flame Proof Enclosures

MANDATORY CERTIFICATION

Number of Products:

16 Under BIS Act

Multipurpose dry batteries with effect from April

1987

Self ballasted lamps with effect from February 2007

Remaining items with effect from February 2003

Products under BIS Mandatory

Certification
Safety of Electric Iron
Safety of Electric radiators
Safety of Electric immersion water heater
Safety of Electric stove

Products under BIS Mandatory

Certification
Switches for domestic and similar purposes
Tungsten filament
general service

electric lamps

PVC insulated cables

Circuit Breakers for over current protection

Products under BIS Mandatory Certification

Elastomer insulated cables

Residual current operated circuit breakers
ac Watt-hour meters
ac static watt-hour meters

Products under BIS Mandatory Certification

AC static transformer operated watt-hour meters
Multipurpose dry batteries
Compact fluorescent lamps

Standards under development

Wind Energy
Standardization in UHV System
RoHS
LED
Safety of Lithium batteries
UPS
Metal Halide lamps

Standards under development

Smart cards/Identification cards
IT Service management
. Information Security
Interconnection of IT equipments
Data management & interchange

WTO/TBT Notification

2006-2007
2007-2008
2008-till date

87
65
51

WTO/TBT Notification

China 25
Israel 21
Trinidad and Tobago
USA
15
Thailand 13
Morocco
10
Japan 9

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WTO/TBT Notification

Cables & Conductors

Electrical Appliances
Lamps,Luminaires,Controlgears
Rotating Machines
Wiring Accessories
Low Voltage Switchgears

WTO/TBT NOTIFICATION

Poor response from industry

Text of notifications not in English language

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