Ministry of Steel has issued Quality Control Orders for enforcement of 151 BIS Standards. The last Quality Control Order was issued in August 2024. No new Quality Control Order has been issued after that.
The Order of Ministry of Steel dated 13th June 2025 is to clarify that the intermediate material for manufacturing of final products under BIS Standards, steel products will also have to follow BIS Standards prescribed for such intermediate products. No new Quality Control Orders have been issued. This order was necessary in view of the following:
Parity with domestic producers: Presently, import of finished steel products was not at par with Indian manufacturers of finished steel products as Indian steel products manufacturers had to use only BIS Standard compliant intermediate material while no such requirement was felt by importers for import of steel products. It will be wrong to put domestic steel products manufacturers at a comparative disadvantage vis-à-vis imported products in terms of non-BIS compliant intermediate input products.
Compliance of BIS Standards for intermediate product is required to ensure that finished product is as per quality requirement given by BIS Standards. If this not done, a final product may be sub-standard. For example, large quantity of coated steel is imported into India. Coated steel uses HR/CR Coil as base material, which is the main product in this case. If HR/CR Coil is not BIS compliant, coated steel cannot be BIS compliant, even if the coating process is itself BIS compliant.
