Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) is an autonomous government body under the Ministry of Industries, established to control the standards of services, goods, weights and measures, and promote the adoption of the international system of units in Bangladesh.[1] This institution is a Key Performance Indicator (KPI) of the Government of Bangladesh.
Bangladesh Standards Institution (BDSI) was established in 1971 after the liberation war as a National Standards body of the country. In 1974, the institution so formed became member of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO).[2] The present institution comes into being through an Ordinance (Ordinance XXXVII of 1985) with the merger of Bangladesh Standards Institution (BDSI) and the Central Testing Laboratories (CTL) in 1985.[2][3] In 1995 Department of Agricultural Grading and Marking was merged with BSTI. The BSTI ordinance of 1985 was converted into an act in 2018.
The responsibility of promulgating these standards lies with the Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), while the task of technical drafting and declaration is carried out by the BCC. The organization has already developed several standards and simultaneously modernized the existing ones. Bangladesh Standards are:[4]
BDS 1520:2018
BDS 1738:2018
BDS 1934:2018
Due to lack of coherence and synergy between vendors and technologists, these standards were largely never widely accepted nor recognized by international bodies. Later, versions of standards such as BSCII in essence rubber stamped Unicode encoding scheme.[7]
An official order to mandatorily install a keyboard layout package kit in 2018 spawned furor over multiple fronts.[8]
BSTI formulates and issues Bangladesh Standards (BDS) for products and services inside the country. The products and services which maintain Bangladesh Standards are certified by the institution, and a Certification Mark (CM) licence is issued for a validity of three years after factory inspection and standardized testing of the products in its laboratories. Only the licensed manufacturers can use the BSTI certification mark in their product package. The institution has formulated over 4000 standards since its inception. 273 products require mandatory CM licence to be produced, distributed and sold inside Bangladesh. According to Bangladesh's import policy, 79 products require mandatory clearance from BSTI to be imported into the country.
Metrology Division of the institution issues licences for package commodities to the manufacturers under Package Commodity Registration Rules 2021. It also calibrates and verifies the weighing and measuring devices used in the markets and ensures that they maintain the International System of Units.
BSTI runs monitoring activities through surveillance, mobile courts, random sampling and testing from markets and factories.
The institution provides laboratory testing facilities to organisations, government offices and individuals. It also provides metrology and instrument calibration services to local industries, markets, petrol pumps, oil tankers etc.
BSTI is an autonomous agency of the Government of Bangladesh. It operates its activities under the Bangladesh Standards & Testing Institution Act - 2018. A counsel of 37 members is the decision making body of the institution. Minister for the Ministry of Industries is the Chairperson of the counsel.
BSTI is member of following organisation:[9]
BSTI Head office is located in Dhaka. It has 11 other offices in the following regions:
Lokasi Pengunjung: 3.144.29.49