The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has intensified its campaign to ensure compliance with quality standards, targeting e-commerce platforms found violating regulations.
Recent raids on warehouses belonging to Amazon Sellers Pvt Ltd and Instakart Services Pvt Ltd (a Flipkart subsidiary) uncovered large quantities of products without ISI marks or bearing counterfeit ISI labels.
In Delhi, BIS seized over 3,500 items such as geysers and food mixers from Amazon’s warehouse, valued at ₹70 lakhs. A separate raid at Flipkart’s warehouse unearthed 590 pairs of sports footwear worth ₹6 lakhs, which lacked proper ISI certification and manufacturing dates.
Similar operations have taken place across the country, including Gurgaon, Faridabad, Lucknow, and Sriperumbudur, as BIS pushes to enforce stringent quality control orders. Currently, 769 products fall under BIS’s compulsory certification mandate, ensuring safer options for consumers. Violating these orders can lead to fines, imprisonment, or both under the BIS Act, 2016.
This crackdown underscores BIS’s commitment to safeguarding consumers and upholding product quality standards.
