ISI Full Form

The full form or the abbreviation of ISI is the Indian Standards Institute. It was found to generate standards for organized industrial growth and to maintain quality in industrial production. It provides an ISI mark which is a certified mark for industrial products in India. ISI standard is the most popular and recognized certification mark in India. This ensures that the merchandise is under the terms of the Indian standards mentioned by the Indian Standard Institute.

On 6 January 1947, the ISI was established and In June 1947, Dr Lal C. Verman became the first Director of ISI. At present, ISI is referred to as the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS). It gives the quality standards for consumer and industrial goods. It evaluates the quality and standard of each product and gives them a certification mark. The certification by the legislation of 1986 is authorized and offered by the BIS. It is mandatory for merchandise to get certified by the ISI mark to sell products in India. A product of any manufacturer which meets the BIS standard can apply for ISI product certification.

General Products with ISI Mark

The following are the products to which the ISI certification can be applied

• LPG Cylinders

• Electrical equipment

• Packaged foods and drinking water

• Thermometers

• Kitchen appliances and equipment

• Packaged Grocery items etc.

There are plenty of products with fake ISI marks in the market. They use fake ISI marks on their products without actually getting original certification from the BIS. So, It is suggested to be very careful to choose the products.

Fake ISI Marks

Fake ISI marks do not carry the standard seven-digit registration number.

There is an IS number on the top of the ISI mark which denotes the amount of the Indian standard for the actual product.

Other ISI agencies

• ISI: Inter-Service Intelligence

In Pakistan, ISI stands for Inter-Service Intelligence which is an intelligence agency. The headquarters of ISI is in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. It is a premier intelligence agency, accountable for providing intelligence assessment and national security in Pakistan.

At present  Lt. Gen. Nadeem Anjum is the Director-General or head of ISI. In 2011, International Business Times honors It as the top intelligence agency in the world. Though Pakistan has other military and civilian intelligence agencies, the ISI is the most powerful and most politicized among them.

History

After independence, two intelligence agencies emerged in Pakistan: IB (Intelligence Bureau) and MI (Military Intelligence). But due to the poor contribution of these two agencies, ISI was established in 1948 for intelligence gathering and sharing information among armed forces: the army, navy, and air force. In 1950, it officially entrusted the task to safeguard the interests of Pakistan and the security of the nation inside and outside the country.

• ISI: Indian Statistical Institute

ISI also refers to the Indian Statistical Institute, which is located in Kolkata, West Bengal. It also has branches in Delhi, Bangalore, Tejpur, and Chennai. On 17 December 1931, Kolkata Professor P.C. Mahalanobis founded this Institute. ISI achieved the status of an Institution of National Importance by the 1959 act of the Parliament.

It is one of the most reputed and oldest institutions in the Statistical field. It is devoted to the research, teaching, and application of statistics, social sciences, and natural sciences. It offers courses like Statistics, Computer Science, and Mathematics. This university is approved by UGC, NAAC, and AIU.

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