BIS celebrates World Standards Day 2019

Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) organised a national level seminar on “Video Standards Create a Global Stage” in New Delhi to celebrate the occasion of 50th World Standards Day 2019. Each year, International Organization for Standardization (ISO) decides a theme for the World Standards Day based on the current aspects of standardization. The theme of WSD 2019 was “Video Standards Create a Global Stage”. The event was inaugurated by the Minister of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution, Ram Vilas Paswan. The minister highlighted the importance of standards in facilitating technological growth and advancement of industries. He said, India is keen on adopting Digital technologies to promote government initiatives like Digital India, to transform India into a digitally empowered economy. He informed the gathering about several initiatives taken by BIS in standardization activities of emerging technologies through various technical committees that have been created for Artificial Intelligence, IoT, Block chain, Smart Cities and Smart Manufacturing. Rohit Kumar Parmar, DG, BIS in his inaugural address said that the advancements in electronics and information technology in the second half of 20th century boosted video production and technological developments in the last couple of decades has made producing and storing videos more portable.