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Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food and Public Distribution has evolved National Building Code to minimize disaster due to the natural calamities like earthquake. The code prepared by experts of Bureau of Indian Standards after studying various related aspects for two years is being submitted to the Home Ministry for further necessary action. This was disclosed by Shri L. Mansingh, Secretary, Department of Consumer Affairs here today addressing the celebrations of World Standards Day. Expressing concern over large-scale disasters due to earthquake in Kutch and recently in Jammu & Kashmir, he said that the effective implementation of modern standardization is must to minimize disasters.
Stressing the need of uniform standardization of products and services, Shri Mansingh said that efforts should be made to adopt each others standards wherever possible. Citing the example of Kutch (Gujarat), where Shri Mansingh was coordinated the relief measures on behalf of the centres, he said that massive international aid at that time could not be use effectively in the absence of standardization, specially in the case of medicines and tents. After globalisation of trade standardization has assumed very high significance the Bureau of Indian Standards has geared up to face new challenges and to lay down modern and higher norms of standardization wherever required in services or products, the Secretary said.
On the occasion Bureau of Indian Standards organized a seminar with the theme “Standards for the Safer World” which was addressed by experts from various fields of disasters management. Importance of standardization of security measures in view of incidents like Tsunami/Floods, SARS, Hurricane Katrina, Earthquake, and Terrorist attack were discussed in detail.
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