Southern Railway has allowed the the Khadi and Village Industries Commission (KVIC) to provide a self certificate of quality for its products.

Earlier, the Southern Railway had insisted that the supplies must be inspected by the quality assurance wing of the DGS&D (Director General of Supplies and Disposal) also.

DGS&D is the central purchase organisation under Ministry of Commerce and Industry.

Due to this additional testing, supplies were getting delayed and khadi institutions were made to bear extra testing cost, the KVIC  said.

The KVIC further said that “it is now enough for the commission to provide a self certificate of quality for its supplies with test results from laboratories that were either approved or recognised or the National Accreditation Board for Testing and Calibration Laboratories.”

The Southern Railway has agreed to do away with this procedure following a request from KVIC Chairman V K Saxena.

Saxena, in a letter to Southern Railway General Manager, V Johri, has pointed out that there was no provision for DGS&D inspection in the rate contract and that all other zonal Railways were also following the green channel system.

The move is part of the KVIC to promote khadi and village industries sector in the country.

KVIC supplies bed sheets and bed covers in large quantities to the various railways which are duly tested before each consignment, the commission said in a statement.

Source: Business Standard