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Quality Council Of India (QCI)

• The Quality Council of India (QCI) recently celebrated its 25th anniversary.
• The QCI has also started a campaign called "Gunvatta Se Atmanirbharta: India's Quality Movement" to highlight India's quality centres, raise awareness of India's historic accomplishments, and let people know about programmes designed to improve everyone's quality of life.

The Quality Council of India (QCI) is what, exactly?

History:

• In 1996, the Quality Council of India (QCI) was founded as a National Organisation for Accreditation.
• As a result, QCI was established through a PPP model as a free-standing organisation with the backing of the Indian government and the Indian business, which was represented by the three leading industry associations.
• Associated Chambers of Commerce and Industry of India (ASSOCHAM)
• Confederation of Indian Industry (CII)
• Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI)

About:

• Under the Societies Registration Act XXI of 1860, QCI is a non-profit organisation.
• The Department of Industrial Policy and Promotion within the Ministry of Commerce and Industry is known as Nodal Ministry.
• It is managed by a 38-member Council with equal representation from the government, business, and consumer groups.
• On the advice of the industry to the government, the Prime Minister appoints the Chairman of QCI.
• The creation of a mechanism for impartial third-party evaluation of goods, services, and procedures is the goal.
• It is crucial to the propagation, adoption, and observance of quality standards at the national level in all significant areas of activity, such as education, healthcare, environmental protection, governance, social sectors, infrastructure, and other professionally organised activities that have a significant impact on raising the standard of living and wellbeing of Indian citizens.

What role has India's Quality Council played?

Ecosystem Change in the Coal Industry:

• Because it changed how the coal sector regarded quality, QCI's project was in the spirit of national service and has given quality consciousness to the entire coal ecosystem.
• The quality of the sector dramatically improved once QCI got involved and began implementing programmes like third-party coal sampling.

Collaboration with FCI:

• Thanks to FCI's (Food Corporation of India) dedication to quality, more poor consumers are now able to access higher-quality food grains.

• With the use of biometrics, the distribution of these food grains was now entirely technological, and thanks to the One Nation One Ration Card (ONORC), recipients could pick up their food from any location in the country.

One District One Product (ODOP) Effort:

• QCI has also contributed significantly to the ODOP initiative, which helps distant regions' products find markets in India and overseas.

Additionally, QCI made a big contribution to the Swacch Surveykshan's completion as well as the GI tagging programme.

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