Ministry for Human Resource Development and Updation of Existing Indian Standards

The eminent educational and training institutes of India like IIT, IIM, agriculture universities etc are doing very good and high-level work of educating and increasing the knowledge of the students in their institutes.

At the same time it is also the responsibilities of these national level educational, training and research institutes to benefit the Indian public at large with their updated latest knowledge.

The Indian Standard codes help the people of India to do quality work using these codes. A substantial number of these codes are now old enough (as old as about fifty years) and need updating.

The Bureau of Indian Standards, New Delhi (BIS) has 348 technical committees to make improvements in old codes and framing new codes, which have  their meetings once in a year generally.

The total number of standards published so far is about 19,000. Improving old Indian Standards and formulation of new codes is a very gigantic work, as there are fast improvements in technology and knowledge. Time has come now that the national level educational, training and research institutes come forward themselves to involve themselves in this work.

Mr Prakash Javadekar, honourable Minister for Human Resource Development, Government of India, may like to intervene and consider to assign the job of updation of all Indian Standard by these national level institutes in a given time frame and these draft codes so prepared could be sent to peers for their comments and then sent to Bureau of Indian standards to finalize them.

Adopting this procedure, it will be possible to update and prepare draft updated Indian standards in about a year. Bureau of Indian Standard may also like to prepare its work schedule to finalize these updated codes in next one year and issue them so that all the development activities in India are done in accordance with latest available knowledge. 

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• Water Law
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• Standardization
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2 Comments

1. @ Narasimharao  - When you design a structure with Indian standards, it is always advisable to check the design with USBR and US Army and other codes, which are based on practical experince. 50 year and also 25 year old Indian Standard codes have lost their relevance due to fast improvements in technology. Also "IS 9451 : 1994 – GUIDELINES FOR LINING OF CANALS IN EXPANSIVE SOILS"is basically against basic principles of soil mechanics and I submitted corrected draft code in year 2003 (13 years back) but it has not been corrected by BIS so far. I doubt BIS, Central Water Commission and CSMRS has made it a prestige issue that how a field engineer can prove a IS code as wrong absurd, which was drafted by  Professor R K Katti of IIT Mumbai. I complained to concerned Union Ministers Mr Ram Vilas Paswan and Ms Uma Bharati about inaction of BIS and CWC,  but they took no action as far as known to me.

2. It is right time and need of the hour to overhaul the IS Codes in light of the available advanced technologies .The ease of construction and speed of execution of projects are attracting the political leaders to be over enthusiastic in early completion of projects in turn imposing lots of stress on engineers.

   Quality is being sacrificed for Quantity.

   For example Design of ogee spillways and stilling basins codal provisions could not transfer the theoritucal aspects to ground can be seen that 99% are dysfunctional.

   If we dont change the guidelines matching the current technologies , there is certainity of eroding the confidence by onset of monotony in the minds of practising govt engineers .At the same time contractors take advantage of the not so seriousness of functioning for the benefit of structural under quality execution.

   All these put together amounts to sheer wastage of investmentsade from public exchequer.