DeitY may revise deadline for IT product makers to get BIS tag

Wednesday, June 26, 2013:Due to shortage of labs to test electronic and IT products by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the deadline of July 3 to get the products registered may get postponed to October 2013. A BIS official has reportedly said that there are not enough laboratories to test all the products within July 3. Out of 140 labs certified by BIS to register product there are only nine where the listed electronic products can be registered. Since the delay in registration is not the fault of the companies, the BIS official has said that the DeitY may have to give another extension of the deadline and allow them to continue selling products in the market.

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