Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MEITY) has notified “Electronics and Information Technology Goods (Requirement for Compulsory Registration) Order, 2012″ on 3 Oct 2012 for fifteen categories of electronics items. Another 15 product categories were added by MEITY under this order on 13 Nov 2014. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) then registers the manufacturers under its registration scheme who are permitted to declare that their articles conform to the Indian Standard (s).