To attain ‘Nation One Standard’ vision of Govt. of India, Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), has launched a scheme which provides for ‘Recognition of Standard Developing Organization’.
Through this scheme, BIS aims at aggregating and integrating the existing capabilities and dedicated domain specific expertise available with various organizations in the country and enable convergence of all standard development activities in the country resulting in ‘One National Standard for One Subject’.
‘Research Design & Standards Organization’ of Indian Railways has become the FIRST Institution to be declared SDO under ‘One Nation One Standard’ mission of BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards) which is an Institution under Department of Consumer Affairs.
RDSO, Lucknow which is the sole R&D Wing of Ministry of Railways, is one of India’s leading Standard formulating Body undertaking standardization work for railway sector.