Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI), the state-run watchdog to monitor goods andmanufactured items, from now on will give mobile calibration services to mills and factories in the country.”The mobile calibration services will also help check cheating in weighing of goods in the country,” Iqramul Haque, Director General of BSTI, told BSS on Saturday. Haque said the country has a large number of small and large size mills and factories and different kinds of machinery being produced from these industrial units needs to be calibrated. Usually representatives from mills and factories along with machinery visit the BSTI but that service is full of hassle and time-consuming.From now on, said BSTI DG, large mills factories don’t have to visit the BSTI rather BSTI officials will visit those industrial units.”We’ll not only calibrate weighing machine but also large machinery (imported) at any parameter,” he said. He said BSTI will use four vehicles for the mobile calibration cervices.The vehicles were purchased with the financial support of the European Union (EU) and Norwegian Agency for Development Cooperation (NORAD), said Haque.
