Bureau of Indian Standards

And I guess India has one too, right? Tata Motors is a big company.

The ISI mark is their standard to certify with the Bureau of Indian Standards.

And then the final thing I want to add is on the windshield, I don't know if you've ever looked up the A-pillar.

And close to almost where the top of the windshield is, you'll see like a random etch that's different.

Biss, evidently one of those bands that was formed long before the years of the internet and the search engine.

Because if you search for Biss now, the first half a dozen links are for things such as the Bank for International Settlements, or the Bureau of Indian Standards, and so on and so forth.

So, yeah, and then a little bit down the way, you get the Wikipedia article for BIS, brackets, Scottish band.

But yeah, such a great tune, suggested by Lulu Hell, so thank you very much.

But there's one problem.

Unlike gold, where every new piece sold in a covered district must carry a digitally traceable BIS hallmark, silver has had no such mandatory requirement.

So a jeweler could simply stamp any number they liked, and it was the customer's prerogative to believe them at face value or not.

Now, that could change.

The government plans to begin mandatory silver hallmarking soon.

While BIS' own mandatory hallmarking page doesn't list silver yet, BIS has already been putting in guardrails.

Since September 2025, every silver article that a jeweler voluntarily gets hallmarked receives its own six-character digital ID, which is traceable.

More than 77 lakh silver pieces have gone through it so far.

We're talking about the government's Aluminum and Aluminum Alloy Products Quality Control Order, or QCO two thousand and twenty-five.

A QCO is simply a government order that makes compliance with specific Bureau of Indian Standards norms, or BIS norms, mandatory for certain products.

This one specifically required the aluminum sheets that companies imported to make cans to meet certain standards around thickness, temperature resistance, load-bearing capacity, et cetera, so that they would be safer and easier to recycle.

This meant that if suppliers didn't meet these standards and get BIS certification by October twenty twenty-six, they wouldn't be able to ship their products to India.