Bsti to Get Certificate from Nabcb
India, which exports over 15 percent of Bangladesh’s total imports, will formally hand over accreditation certificate to Bangladesh today.
National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), a constituent of Quality Council of India, granted the accreditation to Bangla-desh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) for its product certification.
BSTI director general AK Fazlul Ahad will receive the certificate from NABCB Chief Executive Officer B Venkataraman at BSTI’s head office in the city.
Talking to BSS yesterday, Ahad said Bangladesh last year got accreditation from National Accre-ditation Board for Calibration and Testing Laboratories (NABL) for lab testing certificates on quality of products.
He said BSTI received two major certificates from India, which will surely pave the way for facilitating Bangladesh’s exports to Indian markets.
Not only entrepreneurs in the industry sector would benefit from the accreditations, he said, it would also help increase international acceptability of Bangladeshi goods, giving a big boost to its export trade.
With this accreditation, BSTI will be able to claim recognition of its certification by Bangladesh’s trading partners, which in turn would help bring down costs for its exporters and increase their competitiveness in the international market.
Bangladesh imported Indian goods worth $4,570 million in fiscal 2010-11, while exported goods worth $512 million. Bangladesh’s export to India is also gradually improving and reached half a billion dollars in 2010-11 from $358 million in 2007-08 and $289 million in 2006-07.
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), a state-owned organization, today decided to install three metrology laboratories on zone basis to ensure accurate measures and test of different types of weighing devices.
The laboratories would be set up in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet to ensure accurate weights of metre bars, tank lorries, storage tanks and petrol pumps.
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National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB), a constituent of Quality Council of India, granted the accreditation to Bangla-desh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) for its product certification.
BSTI director general AK Fazlul Ahad will receive the certificate from NABCB Chief Executive Officer B Venkataraman at BSTI’s head office in the city.
Talking to BSS yesterday, Ahad said Bangladesh last year got accreditation from National Accre-ditation Board for Calibration and Testing Laboratories (NABL) for lab testing certificates on quality of products.
He said BSTI received two major certificates from India, which will surely pave the way for facilitating Bangladesh’s exports to Indian markets.
Not only entrepreneurs in the industry sector would benefit from the accreditations, he said, it would also help increase international acceptability of Bangladeshi goods, giving a big boost to its export trade.
With this accreditation, BSTI will be able to claim recognition of its certification by Bangladesh’s trading partners, which in turn would help bring down costs for its exporters and increase their competitiveness in the international market.
Bangladesh imported Indian goods worth $4,570 million in fiscal 2010-11, while exported goods worth $512 million. Bangladesh’s export to India is also gradually improving and reached half a billion dollars in 2010-11 from $358 million in 2007-08 and $289 million in 2006-07.
Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), a state-owned organization, today decided to install three metrology laboratories on zone basis to ensure accurate measures and test of different types of weighing devices.
The laboratories would be set up in Dhaka, Chittagong and Sylhet to ensure accurate weights of metre bars, tank lorries, storage tanks and petrol pumps.
Besides,