nashik industrialists associated with the plumbing sector want the centre to frame some standards and codes as stressed by them at the 20th indian plumbing conference organised by the indian plumbing association ipa in nashik stating that plumbing is related to health and safety of the public sudhakaran nair chairman of the indian plumbing association on thursday stressed the need for central governments efforts to set standards and codes for plumbing nair said the central government had announced the national building codes for the real estate sectors in 2005 which included a small chapter on plumbing which is long outdated the government has yet to set codes and standards for plumbing today plumbing has become of the major parts of construction and is crucial for the health of the public bad plumbing causes diseases as it is directly connected to drinking water and sanitation hence the central government should set standards guidelines and codes for the plumbing sector and they should be uniform across the country nair was in nashik on thursday to address the inaugural session of the twoday indian plumbing conference organised by the ipa the theme of the conference was plumbing systems for emerging modern cities he asasociation has also organised a twoday exhibition of plumbing products around 40 national and multination companies had put up their stalls showcasing their plumbing products the companies which participated in the exhibition included grohe india kitec industries sekisui astral pipel finolex jain irrigation crompton greaves ltd viega somany ceramics lubi etc