{"id":260935,"date":"2023-09-20T20:20:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-20T14:50:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=260935"},"modified":"2023-10-08T08:15:15","modified_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:45:15","slug":"bureau-of-indian-standards-establishes-6467-standard-clubs-for-students-across-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/bureau-of-indian-standards-establishes-6467-standard-clubs-for-students-across-nation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bureau of Indian Standards establishes 6467 Standard Clubs for students across nation"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Source: <\/b>The post is based on the article <\/span>\u201c<\/b>Bureau of Indian Standards establishes 6467 Standard Clubs for students across nation<\/b>\u201d <\/b>\u00a0published in<\/span> PIB on 19th September 2023<\/b><\/p>\n

What is the News?<\/b><\/h2>\n

The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has announced that it has established 6467 Standard Clubs in schools and colleges across the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What are Standard Clubs?<\/b><\/h2>\n

Launched by: <\/b>Bureau of Indian Standards(BIS) in 2001<\/span><\/p>\n

Purpose: <\/b>They are being established with an objective to sensitize young members of society about the importance of standards in improving quality of life.<\/span><\/p>\n

Eligibility:<\/b> Standards Clubs can be formed in any educational institution in India comprising teachers and students – High & Higher Secondary schools, engineering colleges, science colleges, polytechnics, professional institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Students of class IX and above and studying science subjects are also eligible to be part of the Clubs.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Consumer Organizations\/Non-Government Organizations\/Voluntary Organizations registered on the Consumer Engagement Portal of BIS can also facilitate the formation & functioning of above Standards Clubs in Educational Institutions other than Engineering Institutions.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Formation:<\/b> Each Standards Club comprises a science teacher as its mentor and a minimum of 15 students as members.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Activities: <\/b>The <\/span>student members of these Standards clubs engage in a variety of activities, like: Standards writing competitions, Quiz competitions, Debates, essay writing and poster making and Exposure visits to laboratories & Industrial units and more.<\/span><\/p>\n

Financial assistance: <\/b>The financial support for Standards Clubs in Engineering Institutions would be limited to a maximum amount of Rs 100,000\/- per year, subject to the condition that at least two activities must be organized every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 The financial support for Standards Clubs in institutions other than Engineering Institutions would be limited to Rs 10,000\/- maximum, for each of the three activities in a year for each Standards Clubs.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 High and higher secondary eligible Government Schools with Standards Clubs are also entitled to receive a one-time Laboratory Grant to a maximum of Rs. 50,000\/- in the form of state of the art lab equipment for upgrading their Science Lab.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u2013 Financial assistance of upto Rs.1,00,000 will be given to establish ‘Manak Kaksha’ in government institutions where Standards Clubs have been formed.Under this initiative one room in the school shall be renovated by providing basic amenities like smart TVs, audio video systems, proper illumination, decorating the walls etc.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source: The post is based on the article \u201cBureau of Indian Standards establishes 6467 Standard Clubs for students across nation\u201d \u00a0published in PIB on 19th September 2023 What is the News? The Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has announced that it has established 6467 Standard Clubs in schools and colleges across the country.\u00a0 What are… Continue reading Bureau of Indian Standards establishes 6467 Standard Clubs for students across nation<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10317,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1566,956,9],"tags":[11872,3590],"class_list":["post-260935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-daily-factly-articles","category-schemes-and-programs","category-public","tag-9pm-daily-factly","tag-pib","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10317"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=260935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}