India’s Ministry of Steel has communicated to its counterparts controlling government infrastructure projects that procurement of only Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) certified steel products will be made mandatory, a government official said on Friday, August 26.
The notice from the Ministry of Steel underlined the importance of using only certified steel in building quality infrastructure and suggested that a large number of secondary steel producers do not have technology to ensure quality control and supplies by these producers to any government project should be reported to the Ministry of Steel.
Early this year, the Ministry of Steel brought 30 alloy and non-alloy steel products under mandatory quality certification and no domestic or imported products under this list could be sold without the certification and stamping of the BIS logo.