chandigarh the haryana chief secretary sanjeev kaushal said on monday that the state will establish a standardization cell in the government departments involved in major construction and procurement for improvement and monitoring of quality goods used and procured these cells will coordinate between the state government industries and bureau of india standard bis in relation to standardization activities kaushal presided over the state level committee meeting on monitoring standardization and quality systems of various products in chandigarh he directed the departments to actively participate in the training programmes organized by bis at the level of the nodal officers he also emphasized the procurement of bis certified products and services by the government departments it was proposed that any activities aimed at creating a robust quality ecosystem in the state would be part of this objectiveduring the meeting the director general supplies and disposal was suggested to provide an officer from bis to be nominated as a nodal officer for matters related to standardization and issues regarding tender specifications in the directorate of supplies and disposal for vetting of tender documents and standardizationin addition to this the committee discussed the capacity building of state government officials on standards formulation promotion conformity assessment and consumer outreachthe chief secretary emphasized the need to ensure quality of use of standard products of cement steel and other construction material by the government departments and corporations besides all building agencies and builders of licenced coloniesvarious schemes of bis such as the implementation of standards for piped drinking water supply management system ready mix concrete process certification management systems certification scheme hallmarking conformity assessment scheme for milk and milk products and strategy for the implementation of quality control orders issued by the central government were discussed in detail by the committeeapart from haryana branch office of bureau of indian standards commissioner and secretary food supplies and consumer affairs transport commissioner director general supplies disposal additional director agriculture director msme director department of commerce industries engineer in chiefs of pwd irrigation department phd also attended the meeting