NITRA, BIS sign MoU for standardisation

Dr Arindam Basu, Director General on behalf of NITRA and Surina Ranjan, IAS, Director General on behalf of BIS signed MoU for collaboration in the areas of “Standardisation and Conformity Assessment” on July 23, 2019 at BIS, New Delhi.

Prime aim is to establish cooperation in the areas of standardisation and conformity assessment in the fields of textiles including technical textiles. Both, NITRA & BIS, will work collaboratively in the areas of standardisation activity in the agreed fields through technical Committees of BIS, undertaking R&D projects of relevance to standardisation, organising joint seminars, conferences, workshops, symposium or lectures on topics of standardisation and conformity assessment in the agreed field of academic curriculum. Also NITRA will provide expert man-power on subject domain for the work of standardisation and related activities. BIS will explore the possibility of using laboratory facilities available at NITRA for catering to the needs of various conformity assessment Schemes of the BIS in the
agreed fields.