India to launch exact timekeeping challenge with ISRO, NPL throughout 5 websites

India will quickly roll out a challenge for disseminating exact Indian Customary Time in affiliation with the Nationwide Bodily Laboratory and ISRO from 5 websites throughout the nation, Shopper Affairs Minister Pralhad Joshi stated on Monday.

The announcement got here as Joshi inaugurated the 89th Common Assembly of the Worldwide Electrotechnical Fee (IEC) right here, the place he stated India is witnessing a “huge technological and industrial metamorphosis” with its manufacturing sector embracing automation and Trade 4.0.

“India at this time is witnessing a large technological and industrial metamorphosis. Our manufacturing sector is embracing automation and process-driven precision to drive productiveness,” Joshi stated whereas addressing over 2,000 world consultants on the fee's inaugural session.
The exact timekeeping challenge shall be carried out in partnership with the Nationwide Bodily Laboratory and the Indian House Analysis Organisation throughout 5 strategic areas nationwide, marking one other step in India's technological development.

Joshi highlighted that India has emerged because the second-largest cell phone producer globally and is among the many fastest-growing markets for electrical autos and photo voltaic applied sciences.

The minister stated the Bureau of Indian Requirements (BIS) has developed from “being a technical regulator to changing into a real accomplice in nation constructing” over the previous 11 years. He famous that authorities initiatives just like the Nationwide Inexperienced Hydrogen Mission, PM-KUSUM, PM Surya Ghar Yojana, and the FAME India Scheme characterize “strategic roadmaps towards a cleaner, greener, and extra self-reliant future”. India has turn out to be the thirteenth nation worldwide to difficulty the OIML (Worldwide Group of Authorized Metrology) sample approval certificates, marking a milestone in authorized metrology, Joshi stated.

The production-linked incentive schemes, mega industrial corridors and Semicon India Program are positioning India as a worldwide hub for electronics and semiconductors, he added.

India is internet hosting the IEC assembly for the fourth time after 1960, 1997 and 2013, and can function International Secretariat for Standardisation in Low Voltage Direct Present.

The IEC, established in 1906, develops worldwide requirements for electrical, digital and associated applied sciences by 30,000 consultants worldwide. PTI