BIS Certification in India

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How To Get A BIS Certificate For Power Banks

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Bureau Of Indian Standard, abbreviated as BIS, is a department of Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food, and Public Distribution, which is a ministry responsible for the examination of a line of products, in order to check if they are up to the mark and fit for the consumer. It is a successor of the former ISI (Indian Standards Institution). Remember those ISI marks that used to be on the label of your packaged water bottle, the very same. Obtaining the certification is not mandatory for all the products that are there. But the BIS take electronic goods quite seriously, because of which every electronic device needs to have a BIS certification before it is launched in the market.

Keeping in view, the interest of consumers as well as the industry, BIS is involved in various activities as given below:

  • Standards Formulation
  • Product Certification Scheme
  • Compulsory Registration Scheme
  • Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme
  • Hall Marking Scheme
  • Laboratory Services
  • Laboratory Recognition Scheme
  • Sale of Indian Standards
  • Consumer Affairs Activities
  • Promotional Activities
  • Training Services, National & International level
  • Information Service

A power bank comes under the category of electronic goods.

Electronic Goods come under Scheme I of the CRS (Compulsory Registration Scheme) , also called the ISI Mark scheme. A sample of the product needs to be submitted to BIS-approved labs where it is tested. It is checked if the product matches the standards specified by the bureau. After testing, the BIS officers pay a visit to the factory where the product is manufactured and check the manufacturing process.

In total, there are about 1687 standards set on electronic goods, which include
Reliability Of Electronic And Electrical Components And Equipment,

Electromechanical Components And Mechanical Structures For Electronic-equipment,

Power System Control And Associated Communications,

 

 

So here is the procedure to obtain a BIS certification:

(a) Submit a sample of the product with an approved or recognized BIS testing laboratory in India to get the product tested along with the required laboratory fees. The fees can vary according to the product under consideration. For small electronic goods, , like that handy power bank that gives life to your dead phone and always saves the day, the cost is usually around 60,000 INR. The manufacturer who needs the BIS certificate must check the price required on the government website, you know, just in case.

  1. b) The testing process typically takes a month’s time to get completed. After the thorough examination of the product to check its suitability for the consumer, the laboratory issues the Test Report. In the case of non-conformity to the prescribed standard, the lab will issue a non-conformity report.
  2. c) This test report along with other required documents need to be submitted along with the application Form-VI (for BIS Registration) and Form-V (for ISI Registration) to the regional office of the Bureau. The required application fees need to be remitted too along with the form, which are also mentioned in the official government website.
  3. d) The next step is where BIS officials visit the factory for physical verification. The purpose is to check the manufacturing process and Quality-Control process of the unit. The officers can pick up random samples from the factory and those samples are sent for further testing. This keeps the manufacturers on their toes.
  4. e) In the final step, after all the documents have been submitted and the BIS officers are done with the manual scrutiny of the factory, all the documents and reports go through a final check-up (to check if there was any glitch in the whole process), before the official certificate is issued. Once the approval is received the Government fee needs to be deposited to receive the certificate. The fee for a small electronic gadget is around 50,000 INR. But it is advisable to seek expert help from BIS certifying agents so that they can handle the entire process and guide on the requisite fees required to be paid. ISI Mark registration fees and the BIS Certification costs differ from product to product.
  5. f) In case of non-conformity (step (b)), the process or the product needs to be rectified and the rectification report needs to be submitted along with the Government fees or the annual marking fees (in case of ISI Certification). On satisfactory submission, the Bureau will issue the relevant certificate. Hence the manufacturer must ensure that his product is up to the mark and technically error-free (See what I did there! It is electronic gadget so...never mind) so that he doesn’t have to go through this lengthy process twice or thrice (god forbid).

Here are the documents that need to be submitted to the bureau:

  1. Technical specifications of the product – the drawing of the product, components and raw material details, user manual, Critical component list.
  2. Factory related documents that include
    • Company registration certificate. For SSI, relevant Registration certificate.
    • Trade Mark Registration.
    • Detailed flow chart of the manufacturing process
    • Detailed list of manufacturing machines – name, their purpose, capacity etc.
    • In case certain processes are outsourced, the details and quality control documents related to the same.
    • List of internal testing facilities clearly mentioning details of the calibration status, the least count etc. Calibration certificates of the testing equipment that should not be more than 3 months old.
    • Plant layout
    • Packing and storage details
    • Organization chart of the factory
    • Location map
    • Details of the Quality control team and their qualification certificates.
    • Test report copies for each raw material and part.
    • Authorization from CEO in case of an authorized signatory and in case of foreign manufacturers, details of Indian Representative.
    • Original Test report from BIS Approved Laboratory.

As you can guess, the BIS is quite serious about its work. Only the goods which are up to the mark reach the consumer, unless the process is “corrupted”. You know what I mean.