Directorate of Standardisation

A Standardisation committee was set up in the Ministry of Defence in the year 1958 with scientific advisor as its Chairman. A Secretariat was also created under the overall charge of the Chief Controller, R & D to provide secretarial support to the Standardisation Committee. In the year 1959, Defence Equipment Cataloguing Committee was formed and a Defence Cataloguing Authority (DCA) was set up to provide secretariat cover to it. The Defence Cataloguing Authority was created under the Director General of Inspection (DGI). A full-fledged Directorate of Standardisation was established in 1962, under a whole time Director. In 1965, DCA was merged with this Directorate and the Directorate was placed under the direct control of Department of Defence Production. In 1972, a Metrication Cell was also added to the Directorate. A Technical Information Centre (TIC) was also set up in the same year. In 1977, a pilot project for introduction of Electronic Data Processing System in Defence Standardisation was sanctioned. This EDP feasibility study cell commenced functioning in the Directorate with effect from February 1978. The Government sanctioned the establishment of this Cell in 1979 as a permanent body of the Directorate of Standardisation.