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Quarterly Report Standards, Policy and Regulation

(October – December 2015) January ’2015

SESEI – Dinesh Chand Sharma

1. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) ......................................................................................... 3 1.1 Lok Sabha (Lower House of Government) Passes Bill to Extend Ambit of Bureau of Indian

Standards ............................................................................................................................ 3 1.2 Government is working on mandatory standards for 400 items ........................................... 4 2 Telecom Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI)....................................................... 4 2.1 TSDSI 3rd General Body Meeting .......................................................................................... 5 2.2 Event/Workshops/Meeting to be hosted by TSDSI ............................................................... 7 3 Key Meetings & Events Participation (Generic) .................................................................... 9 3.1 Meeting with Mr. V.S.Mani, Siemens INDIA – 18/12/2015 ................................................... 9 3.2 Informal Meeting with Mr. Franck Boccas of CITD – 18/12/2015 ......................................... 9 3.3 FIEO session on STANDARDS/REGUALTIONS- 18/12/2015 ................................................... 9 3.4 Webinar on Adoption of EN standards by non-European Countries- 10/12/2015 ................10 3.5 Meeting held with CCMC Research Integration Unit – 2/12/2015 .......................................10 3.6 Steering Committee Meeting No. SC#9 – 1/12/2015...........................................................10 3.7 STEM Conference 2015 Hyderabad - 26/11/2015 ...............................................................11 3.8 Meeting with BIS to discuss the EN 115 - 17/11/2015 .........................................................12 3.9 Conference Call with Indian Lawyers for CEN Mark –16/11/2015 and 19/11/2015 .............12 3.10 BIS training: EU CITD Project – 16/11/2015.........................................................................12 3.11 Meeting with EU Delegation and EC Officals – 2/11/2015 ...................................................13 4 Smart Cities……. ..................................................................................................................13 4.1 Update from Ministry of Urban Development ....................................................................13 4.2 Smart Cities: Standards ......................................................................................................15 4.3 Key Meetings & Event Participation (Smart Cities) ..............................................................17 5 Electrical Equipment including Consumer Electronics .........................................................17 5.1 Standard at BIS ...................................................................................................................17 5.2 Ministry of Power Launched UDAY (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna) .................................19

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5.3 BIS Guidelines for the nomination of Authorized Indian Representative for Foreign Manufacturer under the Compulsory Registration Order Scheme .......................................19

5.4 Guidelines for use of Standard Mark and labelling requirements under BIS Compulsory Registration Scheme for Electronic and IT Products ............................................................19

5.5 Smart Energy ......................................................................................................................19 5.6 Smart Grid ..........................................................................................................................22 5.7 Smart Meter .......................................................................................................................22 5.8 Key Meetings & Participations (Electrical Equipment including Consumer Electronics) .......22 6 Automotive…….. .................................................................................................................23 6.1 Automotive Standards at BIS ..............................................................................................23 6.2 Automotive at Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) ........................................23 6.3 Automotive at Ministry of Road Transport and Highways ...................................................23 6.4 Key Meetings & Event Participation (Automotive) ..............................................................26 7 Machinery ..........................................................................................................................27 7.1 Standards at BIS .................................................................................................................27 7.2 National Policy on Capital goods .........................................................................................28 7.3 Fraunhofer signs MoUs with Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises and HMT

Limited ...............................................................................................................................28 8 ICT ......................................................................................................................................28 8.1 ICT at BIS ............................................................................................................................28 8.2 ICT at TSDSI (http://tsdsi.org/standards/) ...........................................................................29 8.3 ICT at Departments under Ministry of Communication & IT ................................................40 8.4 Key Meetings & Event Participation (ICT including Services) ...............................................44 9 Activities by other standards development organization in India ........................................51 9.1 ANSI, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Sign MOU .......................................................51 10 Planned Activities for Next Quarters ...................................................................................52 11 Glossary………….. .................................................................................................................52

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Note: - Few documents in this report, available through hyperlink, are password protected. Considering their confidentiality, please use password “sesei2013” to open them.

Indian Standardization System

A pictorial view of the Indian Standardization System around Priority Sectors of SESEI is shown below;

For more information on the Indian Standardization System, please refer to our earlier report made available here

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1. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) http://www.bis.org.in/index.asp

1.1 Lok Sabha (Lower House of Government) Passes Bill to Extend Ambit of Bureau of Indian Standards

A Bill to extend the ambit of the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to include services, processes and products while ensuring production of world class goods in line with the best global practices was passed by the Lok Sabha on Thursday.

The Bureau of Indian Standards Bill, 2015, adopted by a voice vote, proposes to make BIS a national standards body, introduce mandatory hallmarking of precious metal, prevent misuse of Standard marks and provide for recall of ISI marked products not conforming to relevant standards.

Once the Bill is approved by Parliament, the BIS would get the legislative backing to formally represent India abroad. At present, the BIS is not formally recognized as a national standards body of the country, though it has been representing India in various international bodies.

Replying to debate on the Bill, Food and Consumer Affairs Minister Ram Vilas Paswan said "it is in national interest and it will help in promoting 'Make in India' and 'Made in India'." "It is a historic Bill as the issue was pending for over 30 years now."

Responding to a question as to why BIS should not be made totally independent, Mr Paswan said, some relationship with government has to be maintained as both public and private sector manufacturing companies co-existed.

In order to protect the interests of the consumer, the Minister said "We are trying to bring a Bill for Consumer Protection."

Cutting across party lines, members supported the bill and welcomed the move of the government to grant formal recognition to BIS to enable it to formally represent India abroad. After becoming law, the Bill will allow multiple types of conformity assessment schemes in tune with global best practices, said the statement of objects. The Bill will also empower the Centre to authorize any other agency having necessary accreditation for the purpose of conformity assessment against Indian standards. Extending support to the Bill, Congress' KV Thomas) said the Bill is a fitting tribute to former Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi who had brought in the Consumer Protection Act in 1986 and BIS Act 1986. Source: NDTV

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1.2 Government is working on mandatory standards for 400 items

The Government has identified 400 products and is working to establish mandatory standards for them. Mr. Sudhanshu Pandey, Joint Secretary, Union Ministry of Commerce and Industry, told Business Line on the side-lines of an event organized by CII here on Friday that the Ministry has initiated steps in that direction.

“The exercise involves inter-ministerial interactions and collaborations. It will be a time-consuming process. Later, the Cabinet has to approve the draft standards. The government also needs to involve industry and sector players. We hope to come up with mandatory standards for the identified products some time in 2016-17,” he said.

The mandatory standardisation of products that matches with the international norms is necessary for creation of market access overseas for Indian exporters as well as protecting the Indian market from dumping of substandard products. Multilateral and bilateral trade agreements are currently paving the way for globally acceptable standards, which are used as non-tariff technical barriers for regulating market access.

Incentive packages:

The government was also considering incentive packages for sectors, particularly, food and drug, for upgradation of standards after introduction of mandatory internationally acceptable benchmarks, Pandey said. The Centre is also looking into establishing independent testing, inspection, and accreditation or certification systems and other related infrastructure.

So far, India had primarily voluntary quality, safety and environmental standards. Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) has just 133 set mandatory standards for certain categories of products. There are a few set norms set for certain manufacturing activities by a specific legislation. India also lacks an independent certification agency, as BIS is responsible for setting the standards, certification or accreditation.

Source: The Hindu Business Line

2. Telecom Standards Development Society, India (TSDSI) http://www.tsdsi.org/

TSDSI’s technical organization structure:

Study Groups

- Three Study Groups are active at present: SG1 for Wireless Systems, SG2 for Services and SG3 for Optical Access & Transport

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Working Groups

- SG1 of Wireless has WG1 – Radio Network Evolution and Spectrum, WG2 – Core Network and WG3 – 5G

- SG2 of Services has WG1 – M2M, WG2 – Indian Languages

- SG3 of Optical Access & Transport has WG1-Backhaul

Copy of the working procedure is available here

1.1 TSDSI 3rd General Body Meeting The 3rd General Body meeting of TSDSI was held on 8th December 2015 at New Delhi to take a progress of work. Detailed agenda of the meeting is as below: 1. Opening Remarks by the Chairman

2. Confirmation of Minutes of the Second GBM Meeting held on 18th May, 2015 Minutes of meeting are available at: https://akshaya.tsdsi.org/index.php/apps/files/?dir=%2F3rd%20General%20Body%20Meeting (document = TSDSI-GBM-2-MM-V0.2.0-20150518) 3. Action Taken Report is available at: https://akshaya.tsdsi.org/index.php/apps/files/?dir=%2F3rd%20General%20Body%20Meeting (document = GBM Action Tracker V1.0.0 20151120) 4. Annual Report for FY 2014-15 is available at: https://akshaya.tsdsi.org/index.php/apps/files/?dir=%2Fannual%20report 5. Technical Activities Status Updates Presentation by Technical Leaders on ToRs, roadmaps and deliverables, contributions to partner SDOs Status of Technical group activities is provided at: https://akshaya.tsdsi.org/index.php/apps/files/?dir=%2F3rd%20General%20Body%20Meeting (document name =Technical Activities status update V0.1.0 20151204) 6. Strategy for TSDSI-EU Collaboration project The 2nd workshop on India-EU Collaboration on Standardization for Select Technologies [NFV/SDN, 5G and ITS] was held on 5th November, 2015 at India Habitat Centre, New Delhi. This workshop organized jointly by TSDSI, ETSI and the EU Delegation to India, brought together experts from Europe and India, including e.g. working group chairpersons of technical groups of ETSI and TSDSI. The workshop was held as a way forward from the 1st India-EU workshop, held on 19th May, 2015, where 5G, NFV/SDN and ITS

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were the areas of collaboration selected as a result of voting amongst the TSDSI members. The 2nd workshop witnessed a goodwill and joint effort for the collaboration between both the sides for ICT standardization. In a nutshell, participants agreed on the importance of avoiding duplication of efforts, and the benefits of working together on an international level.

Decision required on conducting the next workshop to finalise specific topics in the 3 technology areas (5G, NFV/SDN and ITS) that can be taken up in the next phase as joint cooperation projects.

7. Strategy for Hosting oneM2M steering committee meeting on Apr 25, 2016, GSC meeting on Apr 26-27, 2016 and 3GPP PCG/OP meetings on Apr 28-29, 2016 by TSDSI in April 2016 in IIT Bombay.

Global Standards Collaboration (GSC) is a voluntary forum of the world’s leading information and communication technologies standards organizations (SDOs). Fifteen TSDSI members have taken Individual Membership in 3GPP through TSDSI in the calendar year 2015. GSC is dedicated to enhancing global cooperation and collaboration regarding communications standards and the related standards development environment. TSDSI formally joined GSC in its 18th meeting on 22-23 July 2014 at Sophia Antipolis, France. GSC is conducting its 20th meeting on April 26-27, 2016 in IIT Bombay, India. TSDSI joined the 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) as its 7th organizational partner (OP) in Jan 2015The Project Co-ordination Group (PCG) of 3GPP is responsible for overall time-frame and management of technical work to ensure that the 3GPP specifications are produced in a timely manner as required by the market place according to the principles and rules contained in the Project reference documentation (Partnership Project Description, Partnership Project Agreement, Partnership Project Working Procedures). 3GPP will hold its 36th PCG meeting in IIT Bombay campus, Mumbai on 28th April, 2016. It will also conduct its Organizational Partners meeting at the same venue on 29th April, 2016. TSDSI joined oneM2M, one the leading forums driving M2M service layer standards, as Partner Type I. The purpose and goal of oneM2M is to develop technical specifications which address the need for a common M2M Service Layer that can be readily embedded within various hardware and software, and relied upon to connect the myriad of devices in the field with M2M application servers worldwide. 5 TSDSI members have joined oneM2M as Individual Members. Contributions from one of the TSDSI members to oneM2M have been accepted as Change Requests. oneM2M will hold its steering committee meeting in IIT Bombay campus, Mumbai on 25th April, 2016. (The Steering Committee has overall responsibility for providing strategic direction and management to oneM2M. All partners and members have the right to attend Steering Committee meetings, but only partners have the right to vote). 8. Presentation by Qualcomm on how IF3 can help organize and fund these events.

9. Partnerships with other Global SDOs/Forums – APT, ITU etc.

A request has been received from a member for TSDSI to take up membership in ITU-T SG15 [Transport, Access and Home] for TIES benefits and contribute in the standardisation activities in this specific area.

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TSDSI had applied via DoT to become an Affiliate Member of Asia Pacific Telecommunity (to contribute to their technical standards work).

10. Revised Membership Fee from April 2016 onwards

11. TSDSI DG open position & list of applicants [8 applicants] 12. DoT financial support towards 3GPP Membership

1.2 Event/Workshops/Meeting to be hosted by TSDSI - Energy Efficiency Group FCC #1 |(TSDSI Hosted Event), 11th Jan 2016

o Agenda : Discussion and approval of ToR, Venue: audio and web conference - SG1WG3[5G] Adhoc Conference call |(TSDSI Hosted Event), 12th Jan 2016

o Agenda: Regrouping of the team to chalk out roadmap of activities. o Conference call details: local std code (39407000) X 26598029# o Web conference details: https://lounge.anywhereconference.com; weblogin reference

code:532007431; weblogin password: 26598029 - SG1WG1(Radio Network Evolution and Spectrum) F2F meeting 28-29 Jan 2016, BLR |(TSDSI Hosted

Event) o Agenda: SG1WG1 [RNES] Technical group will meet to discuss SWIPs and Technical Reports.

SWIPs submitted till Jan 21st, 2016 shall be considered for discussion in the meeting. o Venue: Bengaluru,

- SG1(Wireless) & its WGs Formal f2f meeting Feb 8, 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event) o Agenda: Agenda for the meetings shall be shared with members by the SG Chairs (in

consultation with their WG chairs). o Venue: IIC-Delhi, Lecture Room 1, India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi

110003 - SG2 & its WGs Formal F2F meeting Feb 9, 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event)

o Agenda: Agenda for the meetings shall be shared with members by the SG Chair (in consultation with their WG chairs).

o Venue: IIC-Delhi, Lecture Room 1, India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi 110003

- Energy Efficiency group Formal F2F meeting Feb 9, 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event) o Agenda: Agenda for the meetings shall be shared with members by the Chair. o Venue: IIC-Delhi, Lecture Room 1, India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi

110003 - SG3 (Optical Access & Transport) Formal F2F Meeting Feb 10, 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event)

o Agenda: Agenda for the meetings shall be shared with members by the SG Chairs (in consultation with their WG chairs).

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o Venue: IIC-Delhi, Lecture Room 1, India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi 110003

- Plenary - All Technical Groups formal f2f meeting Feb 10, 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event) o Agenda: Agenda for the Plenary: standardization roadmaps o Venue: IIC-Delhi, Lecture Room 1, India International Centre Annexe, K K Birla Lane, New Delhi

110003 - oneM2M Steering Committee meeting April 25, 2016, New Delhi |(TSDSI Hosted Event)

o Agenda: oneM2M Steering Committee meeting of April 25, 2016 will be hosted by TSDSI o Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003,

- 20th Global Standards Collaboration Meeting [GSC 20], 26-27 April 2016 |(TSDSI Hosted Event) o Agenda: GSC is an unincorporated voluntary organization dedicated to enhancing global

cooperation and collaboration regarding communications standards and the related standards development environment. GSC is not a standards development organization and therefore will not develop standards. GSC-20 will take place on 26-27 April 2016, hosted by TSDSI

o Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, - Project Co-ordination Group (PCG) - 3GPP [3GPPPCG#36] |(TSDSI Hosted Event)

o Agenda: Project Coordination Group (PCG) [Ref: [http://www.3gpp.org/about-3gpp/project-coordination-group-pcg].The PCG is the highest decision making body in 3GPP, it meets formally every six months to carry out the final adoption of 3GPP Technical Specification Group work items, to ratify election results and the resources committed to 3GPP. The Project Co-ordination Group (PCG) is responsible for overall time-frame and management of technical work to ensure that the 3GPP specifications are produced in a timely manner as required by the market place according to the principles and rules contained in the Project reference documentation (Partnership Project Description, Partnership Project Agreement, Partnership Project Working Procedures). The technical specification development work within 3GPP is accomplished by Technical Specification Groups (TSGs). Each TSG has the responsibility to prepare, approve and maintain the specifications within its terms of reference may organize their work in Working Groups and liaise with other groups as appropriate. The TSGs report to the PCG. The meeting calendar in 3GPP website is shown in following link: http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/Meetings-PCG.htm

o Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003, - 3GPP Organizational Partners' (OP) Meeting [3GPP)P#35] |(TSDSI Hosted Event)

o Agenda: The calendar of events for OP meeting is given in the following link. http://www.3gpp.org/DynaReport/Meetings-OP.htm . The tentative schedule will be updated shortly.

o Venue: India Habitat Centre, Lodhi Road, New Delhi 110003,

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3. Key Meetings & Events Participation (Generic)

3.1 Meeting with Mr. V.S.Mani, Siemens INDIA – 18/12/2015 SESEI received a request from Mr. V.S Mani (Siemens) who has recently taken up the role of coordinating standardization and regulation activities of Siemens in India. He contacted SESEI requesting for a meeting to discuss following points: a. Steps expected after the BIS Act is passed in Parliament – specifically how the BIS Rules and

Regulations will get modified. b. What changes are expected with conformity assessment being included in the scope of the BIS? c. The list of the additional product categories identified by the Department of Industrial Policy and

Promotion (DIPP) for which the BIS has been tasked with developing standards. d. How to strengthen our interactions with the BIS e. Why is that the BIS doesn’t make use of the exceptions permitted by using the tools in the IEC Global

Relevance Toolbox to accommodate India specific requirements into the existing IEC standards, rather than creating separate Indian standards?

SESEI responded above queries to his satisfaction.

3.2 Informal Meeting with Mr. Franck Boccas of CITD – 18/12/2015

SESEI held an informal meeting with Mr. Franck Boccas of CITD project to take and give an update on their respective projects including the details around new action items to be taken during the coming year. The update also helps in continued support and synergy between the two projects on areas of common interest.

3.3 FIEO session on STANDARDS/REGUALTIONS- 18/12/2015

Federation of Indian Export Organization (FIEO) invited SESEI to give a presentation on the European Standards & Regulations for Trading with Europe, for the benefit of their members. SESEI expert keeps doing these sessions for their existing/new members. During the session, the SESEI expert shared updates around the following topics and carried out an interactive session for answering queries raised:

Project SESEI

What is meant by Standards

Why Standardization

Standardization in Europe

Standardization & Certification

Conclusion were summarized as below:

Standards are Business Tools

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Standards ensure interoperability of devices

Standardization is a tool to create markets as large and homogenous as possible to allow for economies of scale

Compliance with standards in support of regulation/legislation implies the right to place a device on the market, that is to offer it for sale

3.4 Webinar on Adoption of EN standards by non-European Countries- 10/12/2015

A 30-minute-webinar was organized by CEN and CENELEC to explain how they support the global dissemination of European Standards (ENs) by promoting the adoption of identical standards by national standardization bodies around the world. The Webinar also focused on how CEN and CENELEC monitor the uptake of international and European standards in key countries, regions and sectors, and use these results to support their international cooperation strategies.

SESEI attended this important webinar as it provided him with an important insight into how Project SESEI can further support CEN and CENELEC in promoting the European Standards (ENs) in India. The Webinar also stated the importance of standards and the role they play in trade promotion.

3.5 Meeting held with CCMC Research Integration Unit – 2/12/2015

SESEI held a meeting with Ms Andreea Gulacsi (Unit Manager - Research Integration Unit CCMC) & Luc VAN DEN BERGHE (Programme Manager - Research Integration) to take an update on H2020 during his visit to attend SC#9 covering Role of Standards, Research & Innovation, how to address standardization in Horizon2020: Integrated Approach. SESEI was briefed on the subjec with the recently concluded webinar.

ftp://ftp.cencenelec.eu/EN/ResearchInnovation/Horizon2020/WebinarSlides-Horizon2020-2015.pdf.

3.6 Steering Committee Meeting No. SC#9 – 1/12/2015

Steering Committee Meeting No. SC#9 of the Project SESEI was held on 1st December 2015 at Brussels and the participants were ;

Chair : Margot Dor (ETSI)

Secretary : Bernardo Correia (ETSI)

Silvia Vaccaro, European Commission (EC)

Anne Gianniodis, European Commission (EC)

Elin Engelsen Geitle, EFTA

Gabriella Unnur Kristjandottir, EFTA

Hervè Gauthier, CEN

Dinesh Sharma , SESEI

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The main agenda and discussions of the Steering Committee was:

Review of Actions of the meeting SC#08a

SESEI Project Management – Status

Topics for discussion a. SESEI 3 b. Association Membership review c. SESEI 2 Final report – timeline d. SESE-related event in Brussels in 2016 (CCMC)

SESEI Expert report

Latest developments/activities

Planned activities for next Quarter a. The Importance of Regulatory Issues in International Trade b. Technical Barriers to Trade: The New Trade Reality c. Regulatory Challenges and Possibilities. d. The role of Good Regulatory Practice: Introduction to GRP and methods for regulatory

impact assessment as basis for trade policy positions e. Trade in Goods and Trade Policy Objectives f. Regulatory Challenges BIS g. Challenges in meeting EU Regulations faced by Indian industry

In the last month of the Project, the SESEI will work towards closing the action items resulting from SC#9, attend the final SC#10 scheduled for February 23rd and submite the Final Report for closing the Project.

3.7 STEM Conference 2015 Hyderabad - 26/11/2015

SESEI was invited as a speaker at the Society for Technology Management (STEM) Cell Conference in Hyderabad. The main theme of his presentation was "Importance of Standards & Regulations (European Approach & Best Practices)". The feedback from this conference was extremely positive. As the only professional development forum for technology transfer professionals in India, the learning objective of most participants was quite high and organizer received very encouraging feedback on the content. Participants have been particularly appreciative of the applied knowledge and perspectives shared by SESEI. Participant appreciated learning of EU Standards and their global associations and mechanism of single market, EU Commission support to ESOs, directive and legislation mechanism, standards v/s legislation etc. This opportunity helped the project and its scope a very high visibility.

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3.8 Meeting with BIS to discuss the EN 115 - 17/11/2015

SESEI had a meeting with the BIS officials to continue dialogue on adoption of EN 115. During the meeting possibility of temporary lightweight adoption agreement of EN-115 was discussed, which is proposed considering the Indian urgency of adopted Indian standards due to court ruling. BIS official appreciated the support extended by the CEN/CENELEC Management Centre (CCMC) through Project SESEI. Formal submission of agreement is awaited for its further processing and acceptance and closure by BIS. SESEI will continue to follow up on the agreement with BIS.

3.9 Conference Call with Indian Lawyers for CEN Mark –16/11/2015 and 19/11/2015 The application for CEN mark in India was under examination with a possible provisional rejection and a hearing was called on November 24, 2015 at the Trade Marks Registry, New Delhi. CCMC legal office connected SESEI expert with the local legal firm handling the case. The conference call was held to discuss the possible arguments and background with the local legal team. SESEI during the call with the local legal firm in India discussed the following points:

Possibility for SESEI to attend the meeting with Trade Mark Officer.

Further explained the role of CEN while linking it with the Indian & global contexts [BIS/ISO].

SESEI also prepared a simple 2 pager on CEN which he shared with the legal firm.

SESEI also discussed the application details and last copy of response submitted by local agent after which this hearing is now taking place.

SESEI participated in the meeting held at the Trade Mark Registry Office at New Delhi for the hearing on the pending application of CEN Mark along with the lawyers from the legal firm M/s Remfry & Sagar. SESEI provided the feedback on the hearing held at the Trade Mark Registry Office, New Delhi, which was positive as possible rejection was ruled out and application was accepted. SESEI will continue supporting CCMC office on this subject of CEN and CENELEC Trade Mark Applications.

3.10 BIS training: EU CITD Project – 16/11/2015

Under the CITD Project scope, several training activities were organized for BIS officials from 16th to 28th November 2015. CITD project also invited other organizations such as QCI, FSSAI, EIC, DCGI and TSDSI including SESEI. SESEI attended the first day of this training program to connect with CITD officials and BIS officials during this first Training session on EU best practices in Standards formulation-Capacity building and training.

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3.11 Meeting with EU Delegation and EC Officials – 2/11/2015

The EU Delegation scheduled a series of meetings together with Mr. Thierry Rommel from DG-DEVCO and Euro Chambers representatives to meet, discuss and collect feedback from organizations who have been involved with the European Business and Technology Centre (EBTC) in India towards the future of EBTC.

As the EU support in terms of co-funding EBTC activities comes to an end in Feb 2016, therefore, the discussion with the local European partners, trade chambers, trade promotion organizations – as well as other committed partners of EBTC was organized to discuss items such as a) what specifically is EBTC’s legacy, b) what deserves to be extended into the future and c) which parties are willing and are ready to commit resources to that end and over what timeframe?.

In this framework/requirement, a one-to one meeting with SESEI office was held. SESEI expert along with ETSI official highlighted the close working relationship with EBTC on topics of mutual interest such as Smart Cities, Intelligent Transport System, Smart Grid, Smart Meter etc. SESEI also highlighted strong presence of EBTC as a brand in India and asked the visiting delegation on the future of EBTC. Delegation clarified the scope of their visit and assured that EBTC will continue to exist for which a new framework or scope will be determined as an outcome to this study visit.

SESEI will continue to track the progress of EBTC future as it is a crucial aspect for the future SESEI-3 Project.

4 Smart Cities

Basis discussion and agreement in Project SESEI SC#7 meeting: the SESEI has started working and monitor activities on the horizontal topic of Smart Cities in India. Fourth update on this subject is given below:

4.1 Update from Ministry of Urban Development

- Model RFP for Credit Ratings of ULBs is available here

- Smart City Challenge Program details supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies are available here

o Challenge Overview details are available here

o List of Smart Cities eligible for the challenge is available here

o The latest news & Media details are available here

o Tools & Resources for preparing a Smart City Proposal are available here

- The following Office Memorandum has been released in the last quarter:

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S.No. Title Entry Date

1. OM:Smart City Proposal. 16/11/2015

2. Template Smart City Proposal. 16/11/2015

3. OM:Credit Ratings of Urban Local Bodies(ULBs). 10/11/2015

4. OM:Individual Capacity Building-Empanelment of Training Entities. . 04/11/2015

5. OM:Smart City Proposal(SCP) template. 09/10/2015

6. OM:Key Activities schedules for preparation of Smart City Proposal(SCP). 05/10/2015

Summary:

While 98 Cities were shortlisted as eligible for Smart City Challenge Program , Only 85 cities have submitted the smart city proposals. Early Winners and Short-Listed Cities are expected to be announced during the month of January 2016 and these small numbers of cities say 20 having exceptional proposals – are named winners. The next 20 or so best cities will continue in the competition with another chance to win. Remaining cities will have the chance to compete in the next competition cycle. Teams from the short-listed cities will participate in a robust innovation and implementation planning program during January-March 2016 which is designed to strengthen and refine their proposals. After the short-listed cities re-submit their proposals, additional winning cities are announced. They receive funds from the Ministry of Urban Development to bring their proposals to life. Cities that don’t win funding will have the chance to compete again in the next competition cycle.

Background:

Government has identified the total of 100 smart cities that have been distributed among the States and Union Territories (UTs) on the basis of an equitable criterion. The formula gives equal weightage (50:50) to urban population of the State/UT and the number of statutory towns in the State/UT. Based on this formula, each State/UT will, therefore, have a certain number of potential smart cities, with each State/UT having at least one. The number of potential Smart Cities from each State/UT will be capped at the indicated number (note: This distribution formula has also been used for allocation of funds under Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation - AMRUT).

The distribution of smart cities will be reviewed after two years of the implementation of the Mission. Based on an assessment of the performance of States/ULBs (Urban Local Bodies) in the Challenge, some re-allocation of the remaining potential smart cities among States may be required to be done by Ministry of Urban Development. List of identified cities are available here

The Process of Selection of Smart Cities is available here

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National Level, State level and City Level Monitoring framework has been established. National Level Monitoring will be of two types:

1. Apex Committee

2. National Mission Directorate.

For more information on above please click here.

At State Level, High Powered Steering Committee (HPSC) chaired by the Chief Secretary, will steer the Mission Programme in its entirety. For more information, click here.

A Smart City Advisory Forum will be established at the city level for all 100 Smart Cities to advise and enable collaboration among various stakeholders and will include the District Collector, MP, MLA, Mayor, CEO of SPV, local youths, technical experts, and at least one member from the area. For more information, click here.

The implementation of the Mission at the City level will be done by a Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) created for the purpose. The SPV will plan, appraise, approve, release funds, implement, manage, operate, monitor and evaluate the Smart City development projects. Each smart city will have a SPV which will be headed by a full time CEO and have nominees of Central Government, State Government and ULB on its Board. The States/ULBs shall ensure that, (a) a dedicated and substantial revenue stream is made available to the SPV so as to make it self-sustainable and could evolve its own credit worthiness for raising additional resources from the market and (b) Government contribution for Smart City is used only to create infrastructure that has public benefit outcomes. The execution of projects may be done through joint ventures, subsidiaries, public-private partnership (PPP), turnkey contracts, etc. suitably dovetailed with revenue streams. For more information, click here

The Smart City Mission will be operated as a Centrally Sponsored Scheme (CSS) and the Central Government proposes to give financial support to the Mission to the extent of Rs. 48,000 crores over five years i.e. on an average Rs. 100 crore per city per year. An equal amount, on a matching basis, will have to be contributed by the State/ULB; therefore, nearly Rupees one lakh crore of Government/ULB funds will be available for Smart Cities development. For more information, click here. Release of fund guidelines is available here

4.2 Smart Cities: Standards

Update:

In line with ISO 37120, all nine working groups (WGs) as listed below basis feedback from the panel chair and member have further fine-tuned the list of suitable indicators in Indian context and submitted the same to the Smart Cities Sectional Committee of the Civil Engineering Department (CED) 59. Final consolidation of the draft standards is under progress.

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Background:

A new technical committee [Smart Cities Sectional Committee, CED 59] under the Civil Engineering Department (CED) of BIS has been setup to take up standardization work in the area of smart cities. The committee was formed under the chairmanship of former secretary, Ministry of Urban Development, Government of India, Sudhir Krishna.

This Sectional committee held its first meeting on 22nd May 2015. It is an umbrella committee, which will integrate standards formulated by 14 other Technical Councils of BIS and provide guidelines on various aspects of Smart Cities development. The Committee in its first meeting considered the draft document prepared, “Approach Paper on Development of a Standard for Smart City”, which is based on ISO 37120.

Dr. Sandeep Garg, Convener of the committee, informed the members that while framing this document, the Concept Note on Smart Cities as notified by Ministry of Urban Development (MoUD) was thoroughly studied and assimilated. Accordingly, the four pillars of Smart City as described by MoUD in its concept note have been incorporated. As a way forward the broad aspects for consideration in standardization work document would be as follows:

a) Integrated Approach

b) Terminology

c) Administration, Management and Governance

d) Components of Smart Cities:

Physical Infrastructure

Institutional Infrastructure

Social Infrastructure

Economic Infrastructure

e) ICT infrastructure

f) Financing Smart Cities

g) Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism.

The Committee has set up the following Working Groups to formulate National Standards related to various aspects of smart city as above.

1. Working Group (WG 1) for "Terminology & Integrated Approach"

2. Working Group (WG 2) for "Administration, Management and Governance"

3. Working Group (WG 3) for "Physical Infrastructure"

4. Working Group (WG 4) for "Institutional Infrastructure"

5. Working Group (WG 5) for "Social Infrastructure"

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6. Working Group (WG 6) for "Economic Infrastructure"

7. Working Group (WG 7) for "ICT Infrastructure"

8. Working Group (WG 8) for "Financing Smart Cities"

9. Working Group (WG 9) for "Monitoring and Evaluation Mechanism"

SESEI expert in consultation with its stakeholders is actively participating and contributing towards WG 2, 7 & 9.

4.3 Key Meetings & Event Participation (Smart Cities)

4.3.1 Audio call for Smart Cities Work Group - 5/10/2015 A proposal for starting the Smart City working Group was floated within the M2M vertical at TEC. The main thought process behind formation of the Working Group on Smart Cities was that in the Indian context smart city is different from any developed countries due to the following reasons. I. Developed countries have well established infrastructure and have defined procedures and SOP in

place already. II. Indian conditions are different from other countries like lack of infrastructure, traffic conditions (like

lane driving, discipline, more two wheelers etc.), network connectivity, availability of citizen data base, infrastructure for monitoring / control etc.

Hence, it is better to have smart city components, procedures etc. designed and developed specifically to meet Indian conditions. The main discussions during the first meeting of the Smart City Working Group were to:

Finalize the various vertical components of the smart city

Finalize inter and intra communication methods, M2M schemes between them.

Finalize protocols, minimum requirements, security aspects High level framework will be prepared before processing a Technical Report on the same. SESEI will continue to monitor the progress and align the smart city work at ESOs and 3GPP and oneM2M.

5 Electrical Equipment including Consumer Electronics

5.1 Standard at BIS

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- The following draft Indian Standards are under formulation at BIS, issued for eliciting technical comments:

1 ETD Electrotechnical Division Council

ET 10 (6901-6902)

Primary Batteries-- General (Second Revision of IS 6303), Zinc Carbon Batteries - Specification (Second Revision of IS 8144), etc.

IEC/TC 35

2 ETD Electrotechnical Division Council

ET 36(6856-6866)

Live Working – Insulating Sticks And Attachable Devices – Part 1: Insulating Sticks, Live Working – Insulating Sticks And Attachable Devices – Part 2: Attachable Devices, etc.

No technical committee

3 ETD Electrotechnical Division Council

ET 25(6884)

Installation And Maintenance of Lifts For Handicapped Persons – Code of Practice (First Revision of IS 15330)

IEC/ ISO /TC 178

4 ETD Electrotechnical Division Council

ET 25(6882-6883)

Draft Amendment No. 3 To IS 14665 (Part 3/Sec 1) : 2000 Electric Traction Lifts Part 3 : Safety Rules Section 1 Passenger and Goods Lifts etc.

IEC /ISO /TC 178

For more information on latest draft available for comment please visit here

S No Department Description Document No Title of the Doc IEC/ISO

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5.2 Ministry of Power Launched UDAY (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna)

Ministry of Power, Government of India, launched a new scheme "UDAY" (Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojna) which provides plans for the financial turnaround and revival of Power Distribution companies (DISCOMs), and importantly also ensures a sustainable permanent solution to the problem. It empowers DISCOMs with the opportunity to break even in the next 2-3 years. This will be done through four initiatives: (i) Improving operational efficiencies of DISCOMs; (ii) Reduction of cost of power; (iii) Reduction in interest cost of DISCOMs; (iv) Enforcing financial discipline on DISCOMs through alignment with State finances. UDAY also envisages fast track rollout of 35 million smart meters by end of 2019. For More information please click here

5.3 BIS Guidelines for the nomination of Authorized Indian Representative for Foreign Manufacturer under the Compulsory Registration Order Scheme

BIS has issued Guidelines for the nomination of Authorized Indian Representative for Foreign Manufacturer under the Compulsory Registration Order Scheme.

Rule 16B (4) of the BIS Rules, 1987, states that every foreign applicant shall set up a liaison office or branch office located in India which shall meet all liabilities and obligations with respect to the BIS Act, 1986, and the Rules and Regulations framed thereunder for the purpose of registration, on behalf of the foreign manufacturer. The said BIS Rules, 1987, further lay down that the requirement to set up an office in India shall not apply if the Bureau enters into a Memorandum of Understanding with the concerned country for implementation of the Act and the Rules and Regulations framed thereunder, or if the foreign applicant nominates an authorized representative located in India who declares his consent to be responsible for compliance to the provisions of the Act and the Rules and Regulations framed thereunder on behalf of the foreign applicant. For more information please refer here

5.4 Guidelines for use of Standard Mark and labelling requirements under BIS Compulsory Registration Scheme for Electronic and IT Products

The registered users under BIS Compulsory Registration Scheme, time and again have been requesting BIS to introduce a Standard Mark for Registration Scheme and to simplify the labelling requirements. BIS has since notified the 'Standard Mark’ for the Registration Scheme vide gazette notification S.O. 3240(E) dated 01 December 2015. The guidelines for use of Standard Mark for the Compulsory are available here

5.5 Smart Energy

- Government approval to develop 50 solar cities

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The ministry of new and renewable energy has approved a proposed master plan to develop 50 solar cities, including three in the national capital region. Out of the proposed 60 solar cities, sanctions have been issued for 50 cities. For more information please click here - Guidelines for Development of Solar Parks; Government of India

Government of India has issued guidelines for the development of Solar Parks in India. The solar park is a concentrated zone of development of solar power generation projects and provides developers an area that is well characterized, with proper infrastructure and access to amenities and where the risk of the projects can be minimized. Solar Park will also facilitate developers by reducing the number of required approvals. Large size projects have a potential to bring down the cost of Solar Power. Therefore, Ultra Mega Solar Power Projects having capacity of 500 MW or above have been planned in India. Large chunks of land are available in some States for solar park development. There are some developers who are keen to individually take up very large projects. Smaller parks are also being considered in States where there is acute shortage of non-agricultural lands. For more information please click here

- NATIONAL OFFSHORE WIND ENERGY POLICY Consequent to the approval of Cabinet dated 09th September, 2015 on National Offshore Wind Energy Policy, the Ministry of New & Renewable Energy released the National Offshore Wind Energy Policy for information of the stakeholders and general public. The Policy however will come into force with effect from the date of publication of the Policy in the Official Gazette. Policy would provide the roadmap for development of such plants in the country. The policy framework will provide a roadmap for mapping the offshore wind energy potential. Based on this, areas will be located and identified which have the potential for offshore wind energy. Government will get all approvals for these areas and offer it to developers by way of bidding. The Ministry of New & Renewable Energy will be the nodal ministry for use of offshore areas within the Exclusive Economic Zone of the country and the National Institute of Wind Energy will be the nodal agency to allocate wind energy blocks to developers. For more information please click here

- MNRE Revised CFA for Rooftop Solar Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) has revised its Central Financial Assistance (CFA) scheme under which capital subsidy is provided to solar rooftop owner. Previously, existing CFA of the 30% of the benchmark cost was revised to CFA of the 15% of the benchmark cost in August 2015. MNRE has again revised the CFA guidelines and has gone back to 30% subsidy with few modifications like: No CFA will be provided for commercial and industrial establishments in the private sector as they are eligible for other benefits such as accelerated depreciation, custom duty concessions, excise duty exemption and tax holiday. For all other sectors, CFA pattern will remain same i.e., 30% of the benchmark cost for general category states/UTs and 70% for special categories states. For more information please click here

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- Indian Railways brings out policy on solar capacity panels at stations Indian Railways as part of its ‘Solar Mission’ to reduce dependency on fossil fuels, the transporter has come out with a policy on solar capacity panels on rooftops of railway stations. It has envisioned a plan to source 1,000 mw of solar power over five years besides establishing 132 mw of windmill plants by REMCL. Of the 1,000 mw which will be harnessed through solar power 500 mw will be generated through solar capacity panels on rooftops. The railways in the first phase intend to procure 50 mw of solar energy, which will be divided over all the zonal railways across India. For more information please click here - MEDA issued draft Off-Grid Renewable Policy Maharashtra Energy Development Agency (MEDA) has issued the draft policy on Off Grid Renewable Energy Generation for the state. Maharashtra has abundance of renewable energy sources in terms of solar and biomasses which are decentralized and in order to tap these new and renewable energy sources and reduce the dependency on conventional energy resources in the state. Under this policy there will be installation of 200MW solar PV on government buildings and lands available for solar plants in building premises, 10000 solar water pumps, solar food processing units capacity of 1,50,000 sq. m., solar water heater for capacity of 0.5 million sq.m., 4000 kW capacity of Biogass and villages with fully functional microgirds. For more information please click here - J&K State Electricity Regulatory Commission (JKERC) issued “Grid Interactive Rooftop Solar Photo

Voltaic Systems Based on Net Metering” Regulation 2015 Jammu & Kashmir State Electricity Regulatory Commission issued “Grid Interactive Rooftop Solar Photo Voltaic Systems Based on Net Metering” Regulation 2015. Capacity of individual Rooftop PV System shall not be less than 1 KWp and not more than 1MWp with or without battery backup. Cumulative capacity of grid connected Rooftop solar system to be allowed shall not exceed 20% of the rated capacity of Distribution Transformer. The maximum capacity of rooftop solar system shall not exceed 50% of the sanctioned load of the consumer (for kVA conversion to kW use a power factor of 0.9).The Rooftop PV Solar Power Plant should be capable of detecting an unintended islanding condition and shall be equipped with automatic synchronization. For more information please click here - MPERC Issued Forecasting, Scheduling and Deviation Settlement Regulations for Wind and Solar Madhya Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission (MPERC) issued Forecasting, Scheduling, Deviation Settlement and Related Matters of Solar and Wind Electric Generation Sources Regulations, 2015. This code provides methodology for day-ahead scheduling at an interval of 15 minutes of wind and solar electric generators which are connected to the State grid and re-scheduling them on one and half hourly basis, and the methodology of handling deviations of such wind and solar electric generators. Appropriate meters shall be provided for energy accounting. For more information please click here

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5.6 Smart Grid

- Karnataka Issued Draft Smart Grid Regulations

Karnataka Government issued draft Smart Grid Regulations based on the Model Smart Grid Regulations issued this year by Forum of Regulators. Main objective of this regulation is to integrate various smart grid technologies which will enhance network visibility and access, promoting optimal asset utilization, improving customer service levels thereby allowing for participation in operations of transmission and distribution licensee in the state of Karnataka. Every transmission and distribution licensee shall, constitute Smart Grid cell within three months from the date of notification of these regulations. For more information please click here

- CESC to deploy smart grid for 25000 customers

CESC Limited, a West Bengal-based electric utility, has recently announced that it will deploy smart grid technologies for 25000 consumers using Silver Spring Networks’ scalable, reliable and flexible smart grid solutions. If this pilot project succeeds, CESC would bring 3Million customers under its smart grid initiative within 3-4 years. Silver Spring Networks will deploy an IPv6-based radio frequency canopy network and software with in-built analytics that will benefit CESC in both pre-event and post-event scenarios. For more information please click here

5.7 Smart Meter

- Smart Metering for All Customers in India

Ministry of Power, Government of India recently announced that smart meters will be rolled out for all consumers consuming above 200 units/month by December 2019. As per the plan, all customers consuming 500 units per month will have a smart meter by 31st December 2017 and all customers consuming 200 units and above per month will have smart meters by 31st December 2019.

5.8 Key Meetings & Participations (Electrical Equipment including Consumer Electronics)

5.8.1 LVDC Conferences organised by BIS - 26/10/2015 to 27/10/2015 In order to deliberate extensively on the subject of LVDC as an enabler to electricity access and a solution for the 21st century, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC) and Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) jointly organized the first IEC-BIS International Conference titled ‘LVDC; Redefining Electricity’ in New Delhi, India on 26-27 October 2015.

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In the recent past, Low Voltage Direct Current (LVDC) has gained significant importance and attention of global community as it provides wider scope for generation and distribution of electricity with possible extensive usage of renewable energy resources amidst spreading global concerns like depleting fossil fuels; energy conservation; clean environment and continuously growing demand of electrical energy. Moreover, developing countries like India have additional national priority of providing electrical access to its remote villages where there is no power grid connectivity, as yet. All these issues can be addressed with the use of LVDC generated through renewable resources. This conference highlighted LVDC applications and trends which would enable stakeholders to review standardization efforts for a faster and cost effective development of LVDC. The conference provided a great opportunity to SESEI to get more information on the LVDC subject and interact & share experience with large number of global experts, speakers, practitioners and other stakeholders attending the conference from different parts of the world. SESEI prepared a detailed report on the LVDC conference and submitted it to the CEN CENELEC office.

6 Automotive

6.1 Automotive Standards at BIS

Nothing to report in this quarter..

6.2 Automotive at Automotive Research Association of India (ARAI) ARAI has expanded its Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) test facility and conducted a Seminar on Tyres – Technology & Regulations. For more information please click here

- List of draft standards as published by ARAI are available here

6.3 Automotive at Ministry of Road Transport and Highways

- List of Government Notification released in last quarter:

Central Motor Vehicles (Sixteenth Amendment) Rules, 2015 - Draft; Government of India

Central Motor Vehicles (Seventeenth) Amendment) Rules, 2015 - Draft; Government of India

Draft Notification BS-V and BS-VI for M & N Category of vehicles upto 3.5 tons; Government of India

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Draft Notification BS-V and BS-VI for M & N Category of vehicles above 3.5 tons; Government of India

Central Motor Vehicles (Fifteenth Amendment) Rules, 2015 - Draft; Government of India

S.O. 643(E) - Central Motor Vehicles (Thirteenth Amendment) Rules, 2015; Government of India

Notification No. G.S.R 677(E): Central Motor Vehicles (Fourteenth Amendment) Rules, 2015; Government of India

Draft Notification G.S.R. 673(E): Central Motor Vehicles (Fourteenth Amendment) Rules, 2015; Government of India

Government gives tax sops on molasses to boost ethanol production; Government of India

- National Policy on Biofuel

The Centre is considering revision of the National Policy on Bio-fuels of 2009. Poor implementation of the policy in the past has kept the goals unrealized and called for modifications, particularly in the case of bio-diesel. According to bio-diesel industry sources, the Union Ministry of New and Renewable Energy has called a meeting with the representatives of Biodiesel Association of India on December 21 to discuss the issues, including introduction of a mandatory level of bio-diesel that could be incorporated in the proposed policy amendments. The 2009 policy had set an indicative target of 20 percent blending of bio-fuels, both for biodiesel and bio-ethanol, by 2017. Later, the government made 5 percent use of bio-ethanol. After 2009 policy announcement, some 25 bio-diesel units had come up in the country with an installed capacity of 1.2 million tonnes a year. However, currently only five units are operational. Even they have substantial underutilized capacities. Once demand starts flowing in, unused capacities could return to make available more supplies. Source CII

- Government to unveil policy for flexi-fuel vehicles in January Government sees need to boost ethanol production in the country to meet demand once the flexi-fuel system is in place. To curb pollution, the government next month will announce a policy to allow automakers to manufacture flexible-fuel vehicles in the country. The government has called upon the sugar industry to ramp up ethanol production as demand for it is likely to go up once flexi-fuel vehicles are introduced in India. The government is working on a policy on flexi-fuel vehicles. These vehicles can run entirely on ethanol, but also have option for petrol. It hopes to make this announcement before January 26.Not much research or study is required to finalize the policy as countries like the US and Brazil are already implementing it. This will not only cut crude oil imports, but help in addressing the problem of pollution. Positive about introducing the flexi-fuel vehicles policy in India, Union Transport Minister said, that he has told automobile makers that it will be good if they come on board with us on the issue. Even if they don’t, then we will make efforts to bring them on board. This will happen for sure. Source CII

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- Government plans to ban steel not meeting BIS approval The government is planning to issue a Steel and Steel Products (Quality Control) Order 2015 to ban production, sale or distribution of any steel product that does not meet Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) approval. The move is part of the efforts being made to rein in rising imports and protect domestic industry for which government has already issued safeguard duty on certain steel items and anti-dumping duty on stainless steel products. The order does not pertain to exports of steel by domestic producers. The proposed order will come into effect three months from the time of its official notification. Most industry watchers and analysts feel this measure will be stronger and more effective in curbing imports that the earlier moves by the government since most overseas steel producers do not meet BIS norms. The sub-standard or defective steel products that do not conform to the order will have to be disposed off as scrap as per the scheme of testing and inspection of the BIS. As per the order, all manufacturers of steel and steel products will have to apply to BIS for getting a license and for use of Standard mark of BIS. To secure compliance, it says the appropriate authority may inspect books or other documents and other steel product belonging to the manufacturer / trader of steel and also enter and search premises and seize any steel products believed to be not of the specified standard. Source The Economic Times - Govt. asks auto industry to adopt Euro VI emission norms at the earliest

Road Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari indicated on Wednesday that the government may not be in position to extend the deadline for compliance with the stricter Euro VI emission norms and urged the auto industry to upgrade its technology at the earliest. Gadkari's direction comes at a time when the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers (SIAM) has demanded extension of time for compliance to Euro V and VI norms saying compressing time frame will result in the risk of putting an inadequately validated technology on Indian roads. More here: Source Business Today

- Indian government allocates low frequency bands for radar-based safety systems

Advanced auto safety systems like radar-based blind spot monitoring, adaptive cruise control and lane departure warning require the use of radio bands by which vehicles on the road can detect each other’s’ presence and position. Such radar-based safety systems have been stripped or turned off in high-end cars sold in India as the automakers have no permission from the government or a licence to use a specific radio frequency range in which these technologies can function legally. For more information please click here

- Government to launch Electric Vehicle platforms soon

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As the world progresses to drive more eco-friendly cars, sources have revealed that the Indian government has also been striving to popularise the EVs and hybrids in the country. For this purpose, the government has reportedly been working on in-house developed EV platforms that would range between commercial vehicles to two-wheelers. Speaking more on the occasion to AutoCar Professional, Ambuj Sharma, Additional Secretary, Department of Heavy Industry, Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises, Government of India, said, “We have involved all the major OEMs. On the bus platform we have Tata, Ashok Leyland, Mahindra, Eicher all on board. Their technical know-how, R&D facilities, along with centres of excellence and some IITs are coming together on the project. We are putting in government money for R&D. Since all OEMs are on board and they are deeply involved in the process, each of them would build their own prototypes and would be allowed to brand individually, but the platform specs and components would all be common.” For this purpose the government has invested about Rs 1,600 Crore and would showcase its first prototype in about 18 months. At a commercial level the production of new platform would start in about 24 months. Commenting more on the EV platform for small cars and two wheelers, Sharma said, “In the Indian transport scenario these three are the major focus areas. One-fourth of our auto sales are two-wheelers, so our initial focus was on providing viable electric two-wheelers and most of the present electric two-wheelers were using only imported Chinese, Taiwanese and Korean parts and our primary concern was to find an Indian solution for that.” The government would also focus on public transportation that is largely maintained by the state government. Owing to the new FAME scheme being spread across the country, the sale of electric vehicles has also been picking up at a steady pace. With the plans for the new platform, days for cleaner and efficient transport means in India is not too far off. Source: ACI & Car Trade

- Government issued clarification regarding implementation of FAME – India Scheme

In pursuance of FAME – India ( Faster Adoption and Manufacturing of (Hybrid &) Electric Vehicles in India notified under Gazette Notification SO 830(E) dated 25th March 2015, Government issued decision/clarification for the sake of brevity and for general guidance and compliance by all concerned. Copy of the same is available here

6.4 Key Meetings & Event Participation (Automotive)

6.4.1 India Smart Automotive Forum 2015 - 27/11/2015 SESEI was invited as panelist to participate in the Panel Discussion on Smart Automotive Policies and Standards of India Smart Automotive Forum. India Smart Automotive Forum’s objective through this panel discussion was to highlight the most comprehensive delivery of the most talked-about and latest developments, innovations, research and trends to one and all in the automotive community, with the focus on Connected, Intelligent Vehicles and Sustainable Intelligent Transportation of the future comprising of:

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a. Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Autonomous Vehicle. b. Business Models and Public Policies including Public Private Partnership. c. Clean and Green Vehicles, such as; Electric-Hybrid and Energy-Efficient Vehicles. d. Mobile Applications and Mobility Services – including Connected Navigation and Vehicle Services, such

as Convenience Services – Payments for Insurance, Remote Diagnostics and Health Reports, In-Car Infotainment, Parking Space, Point Of Interest, Productivity, Traffic Updates, Weather Information, Vehicle Interfacing with Networks and Power Grids.

SESEI used this opportunity to update the audience about the Smart Automotive standards and work being carried out at ETSI, CEN and CENELEC.

7 Machinery

7.1 Standards at BIS

- Following Draft Indian Standards are under formulation for Mechanical and Production Engineering; they were issued for eliciting technical comments:

Sl

No Department Description Document No Title of the Doc IEC/ISO

Machinery

MED Mechanical Engineering

ME 20 (1469-1470)

Draft Amendment No. 6 to IS 5120:1977 Technical requirements for rotodynamic special purpose pumps (first revision), etc.

IEC/TC/ 115 /SC 1, SC 2

MED Mechanical Engineering

MED 29 (1467)c Draft Amendment No. 1 To IS 14769: 2000 – Household Sewing Machine Head – General Requirements

IEC/TC 148

MED Mechanical Engineering

MED 28 (1468)c

Draft Indian Standard-Mechanical Vibration ―Rotor Balancing ― Part 13 ― Criteria and Safeguards for In-Situ Balancing for Large and Medium Rotors(Adoption of ISO 21940-13:2012)

IEC/TC 108 /SC 2, SC4

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MED Mechanical Engineering

MED 29 (1473) Draft Amendment No. 1 To IS 1610: 2000 – Household Sewing Machines – General Requirements(Third Revision)

IEC/TC 148

MED Mechanical Engineering

MED 20 (1435) Draft Standard Specification for Pumps for Stationary Fire Fighting Installations (First Revision of IS 12469)

IEC/TC/ 115 /SC 1, SC 2

PGD Production and

General Engineering

PGD 25(1583-1588)

Geometrical product specifications(GPS)─Dimensional measuring equipment: Electronic digital indicator gauge – Design and metrological characteristics (ICS 17.040.30) (Adoption of ISO 13102:2012), etc.

IEC/TC 213

For more information on latest draft available for comment please visit http://www.bis.org.in/sf/wcdraft.asp

7.2 National Policy on Capital goods

Government released draft National Policy on Capital goods. Project SESEI in consultation with Partners submitted suggestion through ASSOCHAM on the chapter on Introduction of Mandatory Standards. Copy of the final submission made by ASSOCHAM is available here

7.3 Fraunhofer signs MoUs with Ministry of Heavy Industries & Public Enterprises and HMT Limited

Copy of the MoU is available here

8 ICT

8.1 ICT at BIS

- BIS Panel on “ICT New & Emerging Technology” as part of ICT TC [LITD] The first Meeting of Panel for Smart Infrastructure is being planned at BIS Headquarters on 29th Jan 2015. The scope of the panel is to explore the work being pursued at the international level, the need for standardization in the national context and guide the council for further action in the following technology area: a. Smart Cities (ICT technology)

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b. Active Assisted Living c. Smart Manufacturing d. Smart Energy Copy of the agenda is available here Background: As a follow up to its first meeting of BIS Panel on ICT New & Emerging Technology covering topics such as Smart cities (ICT technology area - ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SG 1), Big Data (ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SG 2), Internet of Things (ISO/IEC/JTC 1/SWG 5 &WG 10), Sensor networks (ISO/IEC/JTC 1/WG 9), Systems Evaluation Group - Smart Cities (IEC/SEG 1), Systems Evaluation Group - Ambient Assisted Living (IEC/SEG 3), Active Assisted Living (IEC/SyC AAL), Smart Energy (IEC/Smart Energy) and Smart Manufacturing (IEC/SG 8) Council decided to divide the work in two groups thereby setting-up two panels as follows: Panel 1: Title – Internet of Things (IoT) Scope – To explore the work being pursued at the international level, the need for standardization in the national context and guide the Council for further action in the following technology areas: a) The standards directly under development by JTC 1. b) Internet of Things c) Big Data d) Sensor network e) Wearable devices Convener: Dr. Gargi Keeni Panel 2: Title – Smart Infrastructure Scope – To explore the work being pursued at the international level, the need for standardization in the national context and guide the Council for further action in the following technology area: a) Smart Cities (ICT Technology) b) Active Assisted Living c) Smart manufacturing d) Smart Energy Convener: Shri Narang Kishore These two panels need to work very first by organizing frequent meetings to take into consideration development taking place in India and abroad. It may also be necessary for coordination with the work being done by the Smart City Committees formed in CED.

8.2 ICT at TSDSI (http://tsdsi.org/standards/)

- New Item for Proposal

The following is the list of new items for proposal (NIPs) and their status from last quarter:

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New Item Proposal

Name Version Status

NIP82 Study Item Report for WG3 TSDSI-SG1-NIP82-V1.0.0-20151102

Accepted

NIP81 Dynamic Change of UE mode of Operation TSDSI-SG1-NIP81-V1.0.0-20151102

Accepted

NIP80 TDD as a primary cell for Carrier Aggregation TSDSI-SG1-NIP80-V1.0.0-20151102

Accepted

NIP79 Stochastic models for macro cellular base station locations used for system evaluation

TSDSI-SG1-NIP79-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

For complete details of the NIP please click here

- List of Study Items Status Update:

Study Item

Name Version Status

SI1 Transport TSDSI-SG3-SI1-V1.0.0-20150421

Initiated

SI7

Improving efficiency of system information transmission and acquisition

TSDSI-SG1-SI7-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI5 D2D Communication: Study of Unicast, Relays and V2X TSDSI-SG1-SI5-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI6 Control and Management of Large Scale WLAN networks TSDSI-SG1-SI6-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI8 LTE-WLAN Aggregation TSDSI-SG1-SI8-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI2 FD MIMO and mmWave Communication TSDSI-SG1-SI2-V1.0.0-20150602

Suspended

SI9 TV UHF Band Middle Mile Network TSDSI-SG1-SI9-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI10 Relay enhancements to achieve good wireless backhaul TSDSI-SG1-SI10-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI3 Waveform Engineering TSDSI-SG1-SI3-V1.0.0-20150602

Suspended

SI4 LTE Band 40 and WiFi 2.4 GHz Co-existence TSDSI-SG1-SI4-V1.0.0- Suspended

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Study Item

Name Version Status

20150602

SI11 Waveform Engineering for cellular IoT Systems TSDSI-SG1-SI11-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI12 Path Loss Modeling for Indian Terrain TSDSI-SG1-SI12-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI13 Open X2 interface specification development TSDSI-SG1-SI13-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI14 Millimeter wave system aspects TSDSI-SG1-SI14-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI15 Characterization of millimeter wave channels TSDSI-SG1-SI15-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI16 Ultra Low-Cost LTE Networks TSDSI-SG1-SI16-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI17 Work Load Design for NFV performance evaluation TSDSI-SG1-SI17-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI18 Massive MIMO TSDSI-SG1-SI18-V1.0.0-20150807

Initiated

SI19 LTE and WiFi Co-existence TSDSI-SG1-SI19-V1.0.0-20150814

Initiated

SI20 Access using Licensed and Unlicensed Bands TSDSI-SG1-SI20-V1.0.0-20150814

Initiated

SI21 SI1 NIP73 Smart Governance TSDSI-SG2-SI21-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI24 SI 9 NIP73 Remote asset management Vertical TSDSI-SG2-SI24-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI22 SI3 NIP73 Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control Vertical TSDSI-SG2-SI22-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI25 SI 10 NIP73 Smart Cities TSDSI-SG2-SI25-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI26 SI 2 NIP73 Smart Villages TSDSI-SG2-SI26-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI23 SI 8 NIP73 Utilities Vertical TSDSI-SG2-SI23-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI27 SI 11 NIP73 Intelligent Transport Systems TSDSI-SG2-SI27-V1.0.0-20150918

Initiated

SI28 SI 7 NIP73 Naming and Addressing Horizontal TSDSI-SG2-SI28-V1.0.0- Initiated

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Study Item

Name Version Status

20150918

SI29 Study Item Report for WG3 TSDSI-SG1-SI29-V1.0.0-20151102

Initiated

- List of Work Item status update:

Work Item Name Version Status

WI1-SI19 LTE and WiFi Co-existence TSDSI-SG1-WI1-[SI19]-V1.0.0-20150814 Initiated

WI1-SI17 Work Load Design for NFV performance evaluation TSDSI-SG1-WI1-[SI17]-V1.0.0-20150814 Initiated

WI1-SI6 Control and Management of Large Scale WLAN networks TSDSI-SG1-WI1-[SI6]-V1.0.0-20150814 Initiated

WI1-SI1 Fronthaul Transport of CPRI signal TSDSI-SG3-WI1-[SI1]-V1.0.0-20150609 Initiated

- List of SWIP Status Update:

SWIP Name Version Status

SWIP57 Requirements and Gap Analysis for vEPC Work Load Design TSDSI-SI17-SWIP57-V1.0.0-20151214

Accepted

SWIP56

Draft Skeleton for Tech Report on Work Load Design for NFV Performance Evaluation

TSDSI-WI1-SWIP56-[SI17]-V1.0.0-20151204

Accepted

SWIP55

SWIP for Section 4.1 of the “Gap Analysis for Centralized Management of Large Scale WLAN Networks€• document

TSDSI-WI1-SWIP55-[SI6]-V1.0.0-20151201

Accepted

SWIP54 Traffic steering strategies for LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation TSDSI-SI8-SWIP54-V1.0.0-20151102

Accepted

SWIP53 Analysis of solution frameworks in Band40-2.4GHz coexistence TSDSI-WI1-SWIP53-[SI19]-V1.0.0-20151102

Accepted

SWIP51 Traffic steering strategies for LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation TSDSI-SI8-SWIP51-V1.0.0-20151027

Accepted

SWIP50 Traffic steering strategies for LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation TSDSI-SI8-SWIP50-V1.0.0-20151027

Accepted

SWIP49 Ultra Low Cost Networking; Approach paper TSDSI-SI16-SWIP49-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP48 Work Item creation for SI13 TSDSI-SI10-SWIP48-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

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SWIP Name Version Status

SWIP47 Work Item creation for SI10 TSDSI-SI10-SWIP47-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP46 System aspects and coexistence issues in Cellular IOT TSDSI-SI11-SWIP46-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP45 Out of Band Cellular IoT System Design TSDSI-SI11-SWIP45-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP44 Evaluation Methodology for millimeter wave channel characterization TSDSI-SI15-SWIP44-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP43 Open/semi-open loop transmission scheme for Massive MIMO TSDSI-SI18-SWIP43-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP42

Request to update the report with use cases of ICIC and SON over Multivendor X2

TSDSI-SI13-SWIP42-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP41 D2D Communication: Study of Unicast, Relays and V2X TSDSI-SI5-SWIP41-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP40 MAC layer or Layer 2 Utility UE TSDSI-SI7-SWIP40-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP39 V2X UE Drop Model for Indian Scenarios TSDSI-SI5-SWIP39-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP38 Data and control multiplexer for Virtual ENodeB TSDSI-SI10-SWIP38-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP37 Analysis of solution frameworks in Band40-2.4GHz coexistence TSDSI-WI1-SWIP37-[SI19]-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP36 Status Report on LTE-WLAN Aggregation Tech Report TSDSI-SI8-SWIP36-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP35 CPRI-T Requirement for Annexure TSDSI-WI1-SWIP35-[SI1]-V1.0.0-20150918

Accepted

SWIP32 LTE-WiFi co-existence issue and way forward TSDSI-WI1-SWIP32-[SI19]-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP31 Non-collocated coexistence study between Band 40 LTE and ISM WiFi TSDSI-SI19-SWIP31-V1.0.0-20150907

Accepted

SWIP30 Traffic steering strategies for LTE-Wi-Fi aggregation TSDSI-SI8-SWIP30-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP29 LTE-WiFi co-existence issue TSDSI-WI1-SWIP29-[SI6]-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP28 Ultra Low-Cost LTE Networks – Way forward TSDSI-SI16-SWIP28-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP27 System Aspects for mmWave systems – areas of focus TSDSI-SI14-SWIP27-V1.0.0- Accepted

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SWIP Name Version Status

20150906

SWIP25 Support for D2D Unicast Communications TSDSI-SI5-SWIP25-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP24 Test contribution to a Work Item TSDSI-WI1-SWIP24-[SI19]-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP23 Way-Forward for prioritizing study topics in LTE-WLAN Aggregation TSDSI-SI8-SWIP23-V1.0.0-20150906

Accepted

SWIP21 Full Duplex Relaying for Small Cell Self-Backhauling TSDSI-SI10-SWIP21-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP19

Deployment examples of Virtual eNodeB towards design for ultra-low cost Radio Access Element or Relay Node.

TSDSI-SI10-SWIP19-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP18

Internet of Utillity UE (IoU) for consideration of enhancement to SI, new RACH procedure and CIoT

TSDSI-SI10-SWIP18-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP17

Various ways to classify Relay Node towards design of ultra-low cost Radio Access Element or Relay Node

TSDSI-SI10-SWIP17-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP16 Way forward for Massive MIMO TSDSI-SI18-SWIP16-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP15

Virtual eNodeB towards design of ultra-low cost Radio Access Element or Relay Node

TSDSI-SI10-SWIP15-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP14

Deployment concerns towards network and system design for ultra-low cost Radio Access Element or Relay Node.

TSDSI-SI10-SWIP14-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP13 Proposal to Solve Interoperability Issue in E-UTRAN Network TSDSI-SI13-SWIP13-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP12

Status Update on D2D Communication: Study of Unicast, Relays and V2X

TSDSI-SI5-SWIP12-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP11 Inputs on study item plan for Millimeter wave system aspects TSDSI-SI15-SWIP11-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP10 Inputs on Study Item plan for Massive MIMO TSDSI-SI18-SWIP10-V1.0.0-20150901

Accepted

SWIP9 Access using Licensed and Unlicensed Bands TSDSI-SI20-SWIP9-V1.0.0-20150814

Accepted

SWIP8 Evaluation Methodology for millimeter wave channel characterization TSDSI-SI15-SWIP8-V1.0.0-20150814

Accepted

SWIP7

Inputs on Study item plan for “D2D Communication: Study of Unicast, Relays and V2X―

TSDSI-SI5-SWIP7-V1.0.0-20150814

Accepted

SWIP6

Stochastic models for macro cellular base station locations used for system evaluation

TSDSI-SI11-SWIP6-V1.0.0-20150814

Accepted

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SWIP Name Version Status

SWIP5 Waveform Design using Generalized Precoded OFDM (GPO) TSDSI-SI11-SWIP5-V1.0.0-20150814

Accepted

SWIP1 Creation of framework document for CPRI-T fronthaul TSDSI-WI1-SWIP1-[SI1]-V1.0.0-20150609

Accepted

- List of Technical Report Status Update:

Technical Report Version

Reports of SI10 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI10-V0.1.0-20150914

Reports of SI5 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI5-V0.1.0-20150916

Reports of SI11 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI11-V0.1.0-20150916

Reports of SI11 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI11-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI13 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI13-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI16 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI16-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI8 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI8-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI14 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI14-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI15 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI15-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI18 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI18-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of WI1 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906

TSDSI-SG1WG1-WI1-[SI19]-V0.1.0-20150918

Reports of SI20 of Meeting TSDSI-SG1-MTG1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20150906 TSDSI-SG1WG1-SI20-V0.1.0-20150918

M2M Use Cases for Utilities-V0.2.0-20151003 advance for NWG TSDSI-SG02-1-[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases for Environment Pollution Monitoring & Control TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M use cases for SmartCities-V0.2.0-20151003 advance release for NWG20 TSDSI-SG2--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases for Smart Governance -V0.2.0-20151003 advance for NWG TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases for Remote Asset Management-V0.2.0-20151003 advance for NWG

TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases on Smart Villages V0.2.0-20151003 advance release for NWG TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases for Transportation V0.2.0 20151003 advance for NWG TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases on Industrial Automation V0.2.0-20151003 TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases on Smart Homes V0.2.0-20151003 advance release for NWG TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

M2M Use Cases on Health V0.2.0- 20151003 advance for NWG TSDSI-SG02--[TR]-V0.2.0-20151004

TSDSI-SG1-MTG2-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151030 TSDSI-SG1-MM1-[WG1]-V1.0.0-

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Technical Report Version

20151102

TSDSI-SG1-MTG2-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151030

TSDSI-SG1-MM2-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151102

TSDSI-SG1-MTG2-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151030

TSDSI-SG1-MM3-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151102

TSDSI-SG1-MTG2-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151030

TSDSI-SG1-MM4-[WG1]-V1.0.0-20151102

- Update from SG3 – WG1 meeting # 05 held on 12th Oct 2015

Following agenda items were discussed and finalized:

o Finalization and approval of NIP40 or Terms of Reference: The terms of reference was presented line by line to the SG3 by Chair. It was approved by the members accepting the changes suggested by GC. The approved ToR/NIP40 is uploaded into common area as TSG ToR v2.

o Approval of NIP7 (NIP for New work item on E- band point to point MW) as Work Item 05: This was parked again as Ericsson was not available to present the same. This will be taken as and when the member proposes it.

o Approval of SWIP35: Tejas networks presented the SWIP35 mentioning the requirements. Huawei mentioned few of these requirements will not be able to be met in Microwave scenario. The same was incorporated as changes in the draft standard by explicitly mentioning OFC. CPRI 7A was also moved as optional in requirement 2. The distance of CPRI in OFC and MW was made as “up to” instead of “at least” and will be further clarified based on future SWIP. It was decided to revise the existing CPRI-T draft standards by adding an annexure of requirements as per the approved SWIP35 with the above changes.

o Progressing the working draft of CPRI-T standard: The last draft was presented by the chair. Based on the SWIP 35 a new draft will be uploaded in document collaboration area. This is uploaded at https://akshaya.tsdsi.org/index.php/apps/files?dir=%2FDraft%20Standards%2FSG3%2FDraft%20Standards

Until Last Quarter:

Meeting discussed Terms of Reference (NIP 40), NIP for New work item on E- band point to point MW (NIP 07) and Creation of framework document for CPRI-T (SWIP01).

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Presentation on Common public Radio Interface: CPRI-T (Fronthaul through transport of CPRI signal from RRH to the C-RAN baseband) was discussed in details with references as a) CPRI Interface specification http://www.cpri.info/downloads/CPRI_v_6_1_2014-07-01.pdf b) NGMN Fronthaul Evolution https://www.ngmn.org/uploads/media/NGMN_RANEV_D4_BH_FH_Evolution_V1.01.pdf c) NGMN Fronthaul Requirements https://www.ngmn.org/uploads/media/NGMN_RANEV_D1_C-RAN_Fronthaul_Requirements_v1.0.pdf . For more information please click here

NIP 40, which is a ToR for this study item, is proposed and Chaired by Tejas Network and NIP 07, which is on E-Band spectrum specifically the 71-76 GHz, 81-86 GHz bands is proposed by Ericsson, India and supported by Telecommunications Consultants India limited, COAI and Tejas Networks Ltd.

A standard is under development and work is based on CPRI consortium (http://www.cpri.info/spec.html) and ITU-T G.709 OTN.

SWIP 28 "Ultra Low-Cost LTE Networks - a Way Forward" Reliance Jio representative provided following update on SWIP 28: The notion of a Network in a Box (NIB) has been around from the 3G days.....we are discussing that here in TSDSI as it is relevant within the scope of the "Ultra low cost networks" requirements. If you see the contributions so far, it lists the areas for standardization to leverage on the concept of NIB. What we find in the market are proprietary boxes using existing 3GPP interfaces with other network entities forcing such deployments within a larger LTE network and not truly as a standalone entity. http://www.chemringts.com/products/cis/smartlink?gclid=CI6Xu9qnvMgCFRcXjgodOsIAqQ http://www.azcom.it/index.php/wireless-solutions/system-solutions-3/evolved-packet-core/ Mymo Wireless representative also shared update on their Backpack eNodeB (NIB) demonstrated to Military.

SG1 (Wireless Systems) f2f meeting on 2nd & 4th November in Bengaluru

Agenda & Update for Monday 2nd November: 1. Readout IPR Policy 2. NIP 76: Dynamic RAN Platform: A 5G Proposal Update => Not treated since proponents did not attend the meeting 3. NIP79: Stochastic models for macro cellular base station locations used for system evaluation

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Update => Tejas: Suggests a broad name such as “Performance study”. Study Item (SI) approved with title: “Performance Study”; chair to upload the SI on the website. 4. SWIP47: Work Item creation for SI10 Update => SI report SI10 to be cleaned up and resubmitted to SG1 on for consideration to be upgraded to a WI. Five supporters for this work item proposal. 5. SWIP48: Work Item creation for SI13 Update => SI report SI13 to be cleaned up and resubmitted to SG1 for consideration to be upgraded to a WI. 6. SWIP49: Ultra Low Cost Networking; Approach paper Update => Revisit this issue on Wed SG1 session. WG1 and WG2 to handle the SWIPS as per their ToR. 7. ToR for SG1WG3 (5G) Update => SG1 chairs request members to give their comments to WG3 chair. To revisit this issue on Wed and finalize the ToR for WG3. 8. Update from WG1 on Radio Network Evolution and Spectrum (RNES) and WG2 on Core Network (CN) chairs Update 1 => SG1WG2- Radio Network Evolution and Spectrum (RNES) presentation, presented the status of SG1WG1 SI and WI reports. SG1 chairman identified that SWIPS submitted to SG2WG2 (Indian Languages) are not visible to TSDSI members. SG2WG2 uses a password protected document collaboration portal to manage SWIPS/SI reports/WI reports. Decision: Members to adhere to NIP and SWIP template and make submissions to pavan@tsdsi.org as per the working procedure. Similarly, WG chairs requested to publish meeting agenda/minutes, SI and WI reports on TSDSI website through pavan@tsdsi.org as per existing web submission methods given in http://tsdsi.org/standards/help/. Chair further requested members to submit their comments related to website issues to SG1 chair or secretariat Update 2 => SG1WG1 presentation: Presented the status of SG1WG1 SI and WI reports. 9. Any other business Outline a list of study or work items that are specific to India/TSDSI (excluding 5G related SIs/WIs from this discussion) Agenda & Update from Wednesday 4th November Meeting: 1. Report from SG1WG1 - Radio Network Evolution and Spectrum (RNES) Update => Updated version of the SI reports generated and approved during SG1WG1 meeting (2-4 Nov 2015) is all approved to version 0.2.0.

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2. SWIP47: Work Item creation for SI10 Update => Questions raised by members: - The proposed mechanism is based on tunnel creation and it needs to be explained to the satisfaction of the group such that this tunnel mechanism will work. Needs to address control and data flow, latency, ciphering and integrity protection. How to ensure that eNB does not release the RRC connection of vNB? Proponent decided to withdraw the request to convert SI and proponent expected to address the questions in the subsequent meetings. 3. SWIP48: Work Item creation for SI13 Update => Decision: SI13 converted to WI, to be handled by WG1. 4. NIP-80: TDD as a primary cell for Carrier Aggregation Update => Decision: NIP approved as WI to be handled by WG1. SG1 unanimously approved the NIP as WI. 5. NIP-81: Dynamic Change of UE mode of Operation Update => Decision: NIP approved as WI to be handled by WG1. SG1 unanimously approved the NIP as WI. SG1 has decided to send liaison statements based on NIP 80 and 81 (that are accepted as WIs) to 3GPP plenary meeting that will be during Dec 2015. Proponents to arrange conference calls to draft the liaison statements by 13th of Nov 2015. SG1 to hold a formal conference call to approve the liaison statements by 24th Nov 2015. The SG1 liaison statements will be sent to 3GPP plenary through the secretariat. 6. Finalize ToR for SG1WG3 on 5G Update => Decision: Since SG1 WG3 chairs were not present in the meeting to give their views, SG1WG3 chairs are invited to submit harmonized ToR in the next SG1 meeting.

SG1-WG3 (5G) Ah-hoc session on Nov 03, 2015

The ToR for the 5G WG is finalized. . 5G WG will be responsible for the following (to be read in sequence):

Collecting requirements from stake holders on 5G standardization

Undertaking studies on end-to-end issues like architecture, QoS/QoE, etc.

Identifying gaps and proposing a roadmap for specification development in addressing these requirements

Assist the relevant TSDSI groups, the governing council and the general body on matters related to TSDSI’s 5G standardization

1st SG2 [Services] in person Meeting, 1st & 2nd Dec 2015, New Delhi

Following NIPs related to M2M were discussed during the meeting:

NIP 6: Telecom Energy Efficiency Studies and Standardization

NIP 18: Dedicated Spectrum Allocation for various M2M Services

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NIP 20: Evaluation of Continua Health Alliance from an Indian Perspective

NIP 50: Embedded SIM usage and specifications for M2M applications in India

NIP 73: Indian Requirement of next generation M2M/IoT Services WG also discussed new NIP on Indian Languages. Following Technical Reports on M2M use cases were reviewed and finalized:

SI21: Smart Governance

SI22: Environment Monitoring and Pollution Control Vertical

SI23: Utilities

SI24: Remote Asset Management

SI25: Smart Cities

SI26: Smart Villages

SI27: Intelligent Transportation Systems Group also carried out discussion on creating SWIP on Naming and Addressing, Technical Requirements Matrix for key verticals – Transportation, Health, Utilities, Smart Governance and Smart Cities etc.

8.3 ICT at Departments under Ministry of Communication & IT

8.3.1 Department of Telecom (DoT) http://www.dot.gov.in/

- Guidelines for Trading of Access Spectrum by Access Service Providers

After considering the recommendation of TRAI on Spectrum Trading, Department has allowed trading of access spectrum as per the guidelines available here

8.3.2 Department of Electronics and IT (Deity): http://www.dot.gov.in/

- RFP Standardization : Model RFPs and Guidance Notes

DeitY has undertaken the task of revision of Model RFP documents. A draft of proposed changes in the Model RFP Documents for 'Implementing Agencies' has been prepared. The Executive Summary and Report of proposed changes are here

- Draft Policy on Linguistic Resources in Open Domain

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It is observed that local language contents are very low on the internet. These may be enhanced by collective efforts of all the stakeholders. Government is making available, the Linguistic Resources developed under the TDIL Programme, on Open Government Data (OGD) Platform. Stakeholders may exploit these existing resources developed with Govt. funding for providing language technology solutions. In the case of language technologies area the linguistic resources developed under DeitY funded projects shall be made available in open domain through www.data.gov.in (Open Data Platform created under National Data Sharing and Accessibility Policy of DST, being maintained by NIC). The data shall be made available under the Creative Commons License. With the implementation of the above, users will be able to download the Indian language resources from www.data.gov.in and they will also be able to contribute their data. The existing DeitY R&D Policy is proposed to be amended for making Linguistic Resources available on Open Government Data (OGD) Platform. For more information and policy document please click here

- Draft Framework on Electronic Payments and Receipts for Government Departments

Digital India program envisages transforming India into digital empowered society and knowledge economy. The Digital India vision provides the intensified impetus for further momentum and progress for e-Governance and would promote inclusive growth that covers electronic services, products, devices, manufacturing and job opportunities. Governance and Services on Demand is an important component in Digital India program and includes programs to offer Seamlessly integrated, Real Time online Services to Citizens with platforms enabled for electronic & cashless financial transactions. Ministries / Departments / States are being encouraged and supported to fully leverage the Common and Support ICT Infrastructure established by Government of India.

Department of Electronics and Information Technology (DeitY) has been tasked with evolving/ laying down standards and policy guidelines, provide technical and handholding support, undertake capacity building, R&D, etc. and further the Digital India vision. The aim is that all Government Departments/ Ministries/Agencies are in a position to collect and make payments in an electronic mode. DeitY envisions that multiple payments channels should be available to enable electronic transactions, ease of access and competitive transaction charges for users.

Department of Electronic and Information Technology (DeitY), Government of India envisages web-enabled anytime, anywhere access to information and services across the country, especially in rural and remote parts of India. DeitY further envisages common e-Governance infrastructure that will offer end-to-end transactional experience for a citizen, businesses as well as internal government functions which includes accessing various services through internet with payment gateway interface for online payments. Apex Committee on Digital India under the Chairmanship of Cabinet Secretary has mandated a targeted approach to implement electronic payments and receipts across all Government Ministries and Departments. In this regard, DeitY has prepared this framework, intended for all central and state ministries, departments and government agencies for expeditiously implementing appropriate mechanism to enable electronic payments and receipts. The objective of this framework is to provide guidelines for departments to:

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- Assess various services involving payments and receipts by types of services and level of electronic payment enablement

- Provide actionable instructions for universal adoption of electronic payment modes for each type of service through various payment channels.

- Provide information on engagement with various payment service providers.

- Provide details of the generic portal that DeitY is launching to host a repository of forms of departments for availing services with payment integration. For more information and policy document please click here

8.3.3 Telecommunications Engineering Center (TEC) http://www.tec.gov.in/

Telecommunication Engineering Centre (TEC) has released four technical reports as below:

"M2M Number Resource Requirement and Options" Release 2 of M2M Gateway & Architecture WG.

"V2V / V2I RADIO COMMUNICATION AND EMBEDDED SIM" Release 2 of Automotive WG.

"SPECTRUM REQUIREMENTS FOR PLC AND LOW POWER RF COMMUNICATIONS" Release 2 of Power WG.

"ICT Deployments and strategies for India’s smart cities: A curtain raiser" Release 1 of Smart City WG.

These reports are available on TEC website and may be downloaded using link www.tec.gov.in/technical-reports/

M2M Working Groups on Smart Governance, Smart Village and Agriculture, Smart Environment and Security are actively working to produce their Technical Reports.

8.3.4 NWG20, mirror committee of ITU SG20

TEC has submitted updates to following document as submitted to SG20 last meeting in October for their review and discussion during the SG20 scheduled meeting on 2016-01-18 to 2016-01-26 in Singapore.

Number Received Source Title Questions

[ 127 ]

(Rev.1)

2016-01-04 Ministry of Communications & Information Technology , Ministry of

Communications and Information Technology

Generalized Architecture for M2M / IoT and

service delivery models.

Q3/20

[ 126 ]

(Rev.1)

2016-01-04 Ministry of Communications & Information Technology , Ministry of

Communications and Information Technology

Requirement and uses cases for M2M /

IoT

Q2/20

8.3.5 Energy Efficiency Standards at TEC

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12th meeting of core group was held on 26.11.2015 at 14:00 Hours and following agenda items were discussed during the meeting:

(i) Formulation of draft guidelines on measurement metrics and measurement methodology of GSM RBS (Radio Based Station-dynamic mode) Equipment as per ETSI approach (i.e. ETSI ES 202 706 v.1.4.1 and ITU –T L.1330)

(ii) Formulation of draft guidelines on measurement metrics and measurement methodology of transport equipment as per ATIS approach (i.e. ATIS-060015.02.2009).

(iii) Formulation of draft standards for energy efficiency and power consumption per port level for router and switches as per the guidelines formulated by TEC

DDG (Fixed Access) gave TEC’s view point on the issue raised by M/s Ericson and M/s Nokia on the draft guidelines on GSM RBS in static mode formulated as per ETSI TS 102 706 v.1.3.1. As per TEC, these guidelines are not required to be modified in line with ETSI ES 106 706 v1.4.1 as the definitions of power consumption in static mode referred in the ETSI standard ETSI TS 102 706 v.1.3.1(under clause 5.2.1) and ETSI ES 202 706 v.1.4.1( under clause 6.1) are same. This can be under stood from the assessment levels defined in the two documents i.e.

A. Assessment level in ETSI TS 102 706v.1.3.1: The present document defines three levels of assessment method to be used to energy efficiency of wireless access networks. The three levels are:

i) RBS equipment average power consumption for which the present document defines reference RBS equipment configurations and reference load levels to be used when measuring RBS power consumption.

ii) RBS site power consumption which is based on measured RBS equipment power consumption and site level correction factors defined in the present document. The RBS site power consumption can be used to compare different equipment at site levels.

iii) Network level performance indicators which are based on RBS site energy consumption as well as site coverage, site capacity. These indicators provide a means to evaluate the energy efficiency at network level taking into account not only site level energy consumption but also features to improve network coverage and capacity.

The static measurement procedure is defined under clause 6.3 of ETSI TS 102 706 v.1.3.1 document.

B. Assessment level in ETSI ES 202 706v.1.4.1: The present document defines two level assessment methods to be used to both evaluate power consumption and energy efficiency of base stations. The two levels are:

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iv) BS equipment average power consumption for which the present document defines reference BS equipment configurations and reference load levels to be used when measuring BS power consumption

v) BS equipment energy efficiency defined as the measured capacity for a defined coverage area is divided by the simultaneously measured energy consumption.

DDG (FA) intimated member participants that the standard ETSI ES 202 706 v1.4.1 shall be the basis for formulation of draft guidelines for measurement metrics and measurement methodology for dynamic mode of GSM RBS. It can be under stood from the fact that the ETSI ES 202 706 v1.4.1 is latest version of ETSI TS 102 706 v1.3.1. However, the measurement metrics and measurement methodology for GSM RBS in static mode as well as site level shall be as per the standard ETSI TS 102 706 v.1.3.1.

On Methodology for measurement of energy efficiency of Base station for WCDMA and LTE Equipment as per ETSI approach (ETSI ES 202 706 v1.4.1), It was agreed by all the participating members that the draft guidelines for measurement metrics and measurement methodology for WCDMA and LTE base stations shall also be based on ETSI approach to be (ETSI ES 202 706 v1.4.1) which will be discussed in the next meeting.

Based on the views and counter views on the adoption of revised ETSI ES 202 706 V.1.4.1 (as Finalized during ITU-T SG-5 meeting in Kochi, Kerala in the draft guidelines, DDG (FA) conveyed that it would be appropriate to process the case file on draft guidelines on GSM RBS in static mode based on version ETSI TS 102 706 v1.3.1 as decided earlier to ensure there is no further delay. Based on the review/feedback of the new version of ETSI document from various stakeholders, if it is felt necessary at any stage in future to adopt the changes in the guidelines, same can be implemented through amendment.

DDG (FA) requested member participants of the core group, once again, for contributing towards finalization of standards for energy efficiency and power per port power consumption of Router and switches. DDG (FA) requested the member participants to give their suggestion on the energy efficiency of Router and switches in line with the guidelines formulated recently and per port power consumption which can be used for Green passport certification.

It was agreed by all the members of core group that the draft for the measurement metrics and measurement methodology of transport equipment based on ATIS approach (i.e. ATIS-060015.02.2009) should be finalized at the earliest and therefore member participants must send their comments, if any, for discussion in the next core group meeting. As per comments from M/s. NEC TEC will prepare separate guidelines for Radio and optical network as all the issues cannot be addressed by single document. TEC requested NEC to prepare base documents/draft guidelines for both optical and microwave transport equipment based on ATIS-060015.02.2009

8.4 Key Meetings & Event Participation (ICT including Services)

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8.4.1 Third Global Wireless Summit -2015 (GWS-15) - 16/12/2015 GISFI was one of the co-organizer of Global Wireless Summit -2015 (GWS-15) in Hyderabad (India), from December 13-16, 2015. Under the theme “Democratizing Communications”, the GWS-15 brought together academia, industry and standardization bodies working in ICT and related areas. On behalf of the Organizing Committee (GWS-15), SESEI was invited to deliver a Keynote Address on 16th Dec 2015 on “Standardization in Education” covering R&D and Innovation as well. SESEI in his keynote address stated that:

Globalization has pushed standardization into the limelight making it become not only desirable, but also necessary in its capacity as a trade-enhancing tool that fosters innovation.

The European institutions have shown their support to education about standardization. Indeed, the European Council ‘Conclusions on standardisation and innovation' (2008) "encourages to improve the position of standardization in education programmes and academic curricula, in order to familiarize students with the strategic benefits and challenges of standardization, drawing on the expertise of standardization bodies".

The European Commission has shown its interest in increasing awareness about standardization. In its Communication on a Strategic vision for European Standards, (2011) the European Commission asked the European Standardization Organizations (ESOs), to improve awareness and education about standardization. Public knowledge about standardization should be increased by means of training, awareness-raising activities and targeted workshops.

SESEI used this opportunity to share with the audience best practices and activities carried out at ESOs. SESEI presentation covered following topics: - Project SESEI - Why Standardization (Standards are Business tools) - Standardization in Europe (Regulation 1025/2012 on European Standardization, ESOs & their

Agreements at the international level with ISO, IEC and ITU. Status of Standards by ESOs etc. - Standardization & Innovation (What is in Standardization for a researcher? , How they are linked and

integrated, ICT Innovation through standardization, Brief on EC programs such as FP7, H2020 & EURAXESS etc.

- Education about Standardization (Drivers for Education about Standardization (EaS), European response, overall aim of EaS, Key Players, Main components of education about standardization (EaS), Why it is important to learn about standards, Why standards are important for Engineers (and for everyone else), Entrepreneurs and standards, and achievements by ESOs including next step and Update on publication of “A World Built on Standards – A Textbook for Higher Education”

8.4.2 “M2M Communications/IOT” organized by NTIPRIT ( Department of Telecom)- 20/11/2015

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National Telecommunication Institute for Policy Research, Innovation & Training (NTIPRIT) is a premier Institute of Department of Telecommunications (DoT). Besides imparting technical training to the officers of the DoT and other ministries/ organizations, NTIPRIT also undertakes Policy Research work, Innovation, Capacity Building and Skill Development in Telecom Sector as envisaged in the National Telecom Policy-2012. As a part of its capacity building process, NTIPRIT organized a one day Seminar on ‘M2M Communications/IOT’ on 20th November 2015 at New Delhi. SESEI was invited to attend the seminar and deliver a presentation on Global Standard Initiatives. SESEI prepared a detailed presentation on the Standardization work being carried out by ETSI, oneM2M, 3GPP and the various other initiatives by the project partners towards harmonization and globalization of the standards in this area. The Seminar was inaugurated by Secretary, DoT, and was attended by senior officers of DoT, BSNL, MTNL, TRAI, Industry and Service Provider Associations. The Seminar provided an opportunity to explore various aspects of Machine to Machine communications which is going to be all pervasive as an enabler of IoT, including challenges and opportunities. The outcome of the seminar is envisaged to be very useful to provide inputs for the policy formulation and for formulating capacity building process.

8.4.3 “Second Workshop of India-EU Collaboration on Standardization for Select Technologies-5/11/2015 This 2nd workshop was held under the framework of the "EU-India co-operation in ICT-related standardization, policy and legislation", which brought together experts of the identified topics (5G, M2M-ITS, NFV/SDN) from ETSI and TSDSI to discuss the status of work in India and Europe, identify synergies, and exchange ideas for future collaboration. The purpose was to listen to TSDSI’s requirements on these 3 topics identified and possibly start defining a work plan for the implementation phase of the Project. ETSI is the main ICT interface in Europe for TSDSI from India as per the scope/ToR of the Project. The agenda of the workshop focused on the 3 subjects (5G, NFV/SDN and ITS) identified with ETSI and Indian presenters for each. A dedicated session on Security was also added to the agenda as a horizontal topic as proposed by Cellular Operators Association of India (COAI). See final agenda here: http://www.indiaeu-ictstandards.in/second-workshop/workshop-agenda/ Speakers: Speakers were selected among the experts participating in TSDSI’s committees. ETSI provided speaker for each topic. Take-away from the workshop were: NFV:

- NFV/SDN: avoid duplication having in mind the global perspective - Virtualization + bottlenecks > invitation to work on it - Benefits from direct contribution are clear > TSDSI as a Partner can send contributions

ITS:

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- Several Indian requirements illustrated - It is essential to bring the key people to contribute to the key areas - Direct input is possible to TC ITS

5G: - 3 different building blocks identified - Propagation loss modelling

Security: - Horizontal topic of mutual interest and importance > Invitation to work on it together.

8.4.4 “2nd EU-India Dialogue on ICT standards & Emerging Technologies “ - 4/11/2015 ETSI organized the 2nd edition of the “Indo-European dialogue on ICT standards & Emerging Technologies”, on November 4th 2015 in New Delhi. The event was organized under the scope of Project SESEI for bridging the ICT Indo European dialogue and in particular for bringing forward and promoting ETSI’s work and ongoing activities within the Indian standardization community and its actors. The event was held back to back with the 2nd EU-INDIA Co-Operation on ICT Standards Project (http://www.indiaeu-ictstandards.in/) workshop which took place on the 5th Nov. ETSI once again brought together technical experts from its community and Indian stakeholders for sharing and learning from each other. This event represented another opportunity to provide stakeholders with an update of present and future ETSI standardization activities and to trigger dialogue with Indian stakeholders for assessing where potential standardization gaps can be bridged and where new venues for collaboration can be established. In summary, maintaining this dialogue strengthens 1) ETSI’s image in India as the privileged ICT SDO to collaborate with, 2) the creation of new venues for collaboration and 3) the enhanced relationship with local partners and members. The topics identified for this 2nd dialogue were consistent and in-line with key ongoing ICT trends and policy initiatives/needs for India and Europe. The conference presented the audience with an overview of the following themes while covering the European and Indian perspectives: a. Smart City enablers (Internet of Things, Smart Appliances and Machine to Machine) b. 5G enablers (Network Functions Virtualization, Spectrum choices for the future and Mobile Edge

Computing) c. Societal enablers (Cyber Security, Lawful Intercept, 3GPP/Telecom Security and Privacy & Trust) Presentations are available here: http://www.etsi.org/news-events/past-events/987-2015-11-2nd-indo-european-dialogue-on-ict-standards-emerging-technologies. The conference was attended by over 210 participants, representing the gamut of Indian ICT stakeholder’s i.e. Indian Standardization Bodies, senior officials from Ministry of Communications and IT, BIS (Bureau of Indian Standards), Telecom, SP/NLD (Internet Service Provider/National Long Distance)

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Operator community, IT and Telecom Equipment Vendors, Telecom, Industry Association and Academicians associated with standards and Technology. The European representation consisted of ETSI delegation, EU & EFTA Country Embassies representation / concerned officials and Delegation of the European Union to India.

The event was highly successful and appreciated amongst both Indian and European ICT Communities, Ministry of Communications & IT, Vendors and operator community equally. Topics, themes, selection of speakers, flow of the event received positive comments and observation from delegates as well as speakers. Above all, the event was a constructive and positive milestone towards re-affirming the dialogue between Europe (ETSI) and India on ICT Standards in India.

Take-away & Follow-up for SESEI/ETSI: The event provided an opportunity not only to present ETSI’s standards activities but was also instrumental for understanding where India stands in these different areas presented and what are the Indian requirements. The summarization of the event and follow-up action items emerging post the discussions held at the event are; a. Working together is the right way forward, Project SESEI is instrumental connecting the two regions

SDOs and associated activities b. Security is essential, let’s work and address it together c. Work on Standards through TSDSI has progressed well: continue positioning India in the global space

by participation, and contribution and working together. d. ICT sector needs global standards and India, being the 2nd largest market for the ICT sector, needs to

position itself as a global player

e. Topics such as 5G, NFV/SDN, M2M/IoT, Mobile Edge Computing etc. are the topics of mutual interest and cooperation shall continue through Project SESEI and other existing agreements in place.

8.4.5 Meeting with Mr. Vijay Madan, Chief Mentor, TATA Teleservices and his team – 3/11/2015 On the occasion of the 2nd EU-India Dialogue on ICT standards and Emerging Technologies, senior officials from ETSI visited India to attend the ETSI event. This opportunity was utilized by SESEI to organize and schedule one-on-one meetings with the important Indian ICT stakeholders. A meeting was scheduled with Mr. Vijay Madan of TATA Teleservices and his team. The main agenda of the meeting was as follows: 1. Informal dialogue on the ICT standards, policy & legislation 2. Exchange of information on the Indian requirement and status update on areas of importance such as

5G, NFV/SDN, M2M / IoT, Security etc. 3. Discussion on the Cyber and Telecom Security

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This meeting was very successful and focused on gaining understanding about TATA’s Group structure, their interest around the latest technology evolution, Innovation and standardization, their global presence, importance of standards, Standard v/s Regulation, their efforts and work towards Government flagship program such as Digital India, Smart Cities, Make in India, Security etc. including possible co-operation and partnership which ETSI could support.

8.4.6 Meeting with Mr. A.K. Mittal, Senior DDG, Telecom Engineering Centre, Ministry of Communications & IT- 3/11/2015 Mr. A.K.Mittal is the senior most official from the Telecom Engineering Centre, the Engineering Centre of Ministry of Communications & IT. The main points of discussion during the meeting were: 1. Discussion on Indian telecom standards 2. Informal dialogue on the ICT standards, policy & legislation 3. Exchange of information on the Indian requirement and status update on areas of importance such as

5G, NFV/SDN, M2M / IoT, Security etc. 4. Working relationship between TEC and SESEI 5. IPR policy of TSDSI and suggested amendments This meeting also focused on existing co-operation between TEC and ETSI through Project SESEI on various subject covering Energy Efficiency, M2M/IoT, Smart City, PLC etc. Meeting also extended opportunity to discuss the TSDSI IPR policy as WG on IPR is chaired by Sr. DDG TEC only.

8.4.7 Meeting with Dr. Asok Chatterjee , DG TSDSI- 3/11/2015 In the framework of the ETSI-TSDSI Co-operation Agreement ETSI officials met with TSDSI governance to discuss the following points: a. Informal discussion on the increased cooperation between ETSI and TSDSI b. Areas of mutual interest c. Status update on the TSDSI activities and their focus areas d. Exchange of information on the Indian requirement and status update on areas of importance such as

5G, NFV/SDN, M2M / IoT, Security etc. ETSI delegation visited the new premises of TSDSI and carry out discussion on TSDSI active WG and workshop on 5th Nov under the EU Delegation partnership instrument.

8.4.8 Dinner/Cocktail hosted by EU Ambassador-designate, H.E Tomasz Kozlowsk – 3/11/2015

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SESEI along with the visiting ETSI delegation and other dignitaries from the Indian ICT community, and TSDSI representatives were invited by the Ambassador Designate, EU Delegation to India. This networking Dinner/Cocktail extended an opportunity to have an informal discussion with the various guests and the officials from the EU delegation office. Ambassador welcomed the delegates and assured full cooperation and support towards EU-India ICT relations. Ambassador also wished a good luck for the success of event on 4th Nov and workshop on 5th Nov. ETSI delegates could also interact with the Indian counter parts and carry out fruitful discussions.

8.4.9 EBG Telecom Sector Committee Meeting – 6/10/2015

SESEI being a member of the Telecom Sector Committee of the European Business Group participated in the meeting held at the EU Delegation office. The main agenda items of the meeting relevant to Project SESEI were to:

1. Discuss and do the mapping of the standards, policy, legislation activities in India viz the Smart Cities, M2M / IoT, EMF and bringing synergies between TSDSI , TEC/ DoT, Deity, BIS ) and EU Global stakeholders ( ETSI, OneM2M, GSC ISO/IEC JTC1 & ITU) .

2. Update by EU delegation on any upcoming visits of senior EU officials & EU member state embassies or any EU update relevant to the ICT industry

SESEI during the meeting highlighted the contribution made to EBG position paper on the chapter on standards, Smart Cities & M2M.

SESEI was asked to share a presentation on Standards covering important subject of SMART CITIES, M2M/IoT etc. which SESEI has agreed to present during the next meeting either F2F or through a Webinar.

8.4.10 Meeting with Mr. Robin Grewal (STING Broadband) – 1/10/2015 On the request from Mr. Robin Grewal from Sting Broadband, a meeting was held to discuss the 5G activities in India and bilateral cooperation. Mr Grewal interest was to find EU partners and funding possibilities to carry out research on the subject of 5G, NGN & Security. Mr Grewal explained the work carried out by his organization on various subject of ICT in collaboration with I2R(Singapore)/Institute of Infocomm Research, CSTA (CSIRO) Australian Govt. Sting Broadband also has Indian companies involved in research & innovation activities such as Sankhya Labs [ETSI member earlier]. SESEI explained the project scope and clarified that such as possibility of bilateral co-operation & funding is not possible in the scope of Project SESEI. However, he introduced the H2020 & EURAXESS mechanisms

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and their links with India for which SESEI can help getting his organization connected with EU Delegation office and the EURAXESS Links India coordinator. SESEI shared the contact details of both Klaus Pendl in EU Delegation and Ms. Ainhitze Bizkarralegorra Bravo (Country Representative for EURAXESS Links India).

9 Activities by other standards development organization in India

9.1 ANSI, Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) Sign MOU

The American National Standards Institute (ANSI) has signed a renewed Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII).

The MOU reaffirms ANSI and CII's commitment to working together to advance Indo-U.S. cooperation on standards and conformity assessment, all in the service of the U.S.-India Strategic and Commercial Dialogue, a key priority for government leaders in both countries. Leaders in attendance at the September 22nd signing ceremony included:

• S. Joe Bhatia, ANSI President and CEO

• Arun M. Kumar, Director General of the U.S. and Foreign Commercial Service and Assistant Secretary for Global Markets, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration

• Praveen Dixit, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Trade Policy and Analysis, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration

• Holly Vineyard, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Asia, U.S. Department of Commerce, International Trade Administration

• Chandrajit Banerjee, Director General, CII

• Sumit Mazumder, President, CII

ANSI members the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), ASTM International, the International Association of Plumbing and Mechanical Officials (IAPMO), and Underwriters Laboratories (UL) were also in attendance at the event.

The renewed MoU covers planned expansions to the Standards Portal website, which provides trade and market access information on a number of economies, including India. The MOU also covers plans to foster standards cooperation in a number of sectors, including smart and sustainable cities; renewable energy, particularly solar power; and water and sanitation.

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Formal collaboration on standards between the U.S. and India has been ongoing for nearly ten years. In 2006, ANSI and the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) signed an MoU, which led to a tri-party agreement in 2007 that brought ANSI, CII, and BIS into close partnership. As a result, with the help of funding contributed by the U.S. and Indian governments, the U.S.-India Standards and Conformance Cooperation Program (SCCP) were established in 2009. And in 2010, ANSI and CII signed their own bilateral MoU, which was renewed in yesterday's signing ceremony.

10 Planned Activities for Next Quarters

• Work on EN-115 adoption & License Agreement closure with BIS in consultation with CEN CENELEC • Organize meetings for ETSI delegation visiting India for the PI ICT Standards for selected technologies. • Short report of Ease of Doing Business: INDIA • Final Steering Committee SC#10 preparation and Participation • Project Closure Report

11 Glossary

S.No. Acronym Expansion

1 3GPP 3rd Generation Partnership Project

2 AFNOR Association Française de Normalisation

3 ANSI American National Standards Institute

4 AMRUT Atal Mission for Rejuvenation and Urban Transformation

5 APT Asia Pacific Telecommunity

6 ARAI Automotive Research Association of India

7 BIS Bureau of Indian Standards

8 BSI British Standards Institute

9 BS-V Bharat Stage-V

10 BSNL Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited

11 CDAC Centre for Development of Advanced Computing

12 CDoT Centre for Development of Telematics

13 CED Civil Engineering Department

14 CEDC Civil Engineering Division Council

15 CEN European Committee for Standardization

16 CENELEC European Committee for Electrotechnical Standardization

17 CERC Central Electricity Regulatory Commission

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18 CESC Calcutta Electric Supply Corporation

19 CFA Central Financial Assistance

20 CII Confederation of Indian Industries

21 CITD Capacity Building Initiative for Trade and Development

22 C-MET Centre for Materials for Electronics Technology

23 CMVR Central Motor Vehicle Regulation

24 COAI Cellular Operators Association of India

25 CSS Centrally Sponsored Scheme

26 DeitY Department of Electronics and Information Technology

27 DoT Department of Telecommunications, (GoI)

28 EBG European Business Group

29 EBTC European Business Technology Center

30 EC European Commission

31 EEAS European External Action Service

32 EFTA European Free Trade Association

33 EICC Europe India Chambers of Commerce

34 EPO European Patent Office

35 ETA European Technical Approval

36 ETD Electrotechnical division

37 ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute

38 EU European Union

39 F2F Face to Face

40 FICCI Federation of Indian Chamber of Commerce and Industry

41 FIEO Federation of Indian Export Organization

42 FTA Free Trade Agreement

43 GA General Assembly

44 GSC Global Standards Collaboration

45 HPSC High Powered Steering Committee

46 ICT Information Communication Technology

47 ICTE Information Communication Technology & Electronics)

48 IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

49 IEC International Electrotechnical Commission

50 IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers

51 IEEE - SA Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers – Standards Association

52 IFCCI Indo French Chamber of Commerce and Industry

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53 IoT Internet of Things

54 IPR Intellectual Property Rights

55 ISO International Organization for Standardization,

56 ISO International Organization for Standardization,

57 ITS Intelligent Transport System

58 ITU International Telecommunication Union

59 JPG Joint President Group

60 LVDC Low Voltage DC Forum

61 M2M Machine to Machine

62 MEDC Mechanical Engineering Division Council

63 MNRE Ministry of New and Renewable Energy

64 MTNL Mahanagar Telephone Nigam Limited

65 NDMC New Delhi Municipal Corporation

66 NFV Network Function Virtualization

67 OP Organizational Partners

68 OM Office Memorandum

69 PASC Pacific Area Standards Congress

70 PCG Project Co-ordination Group

71 PPP Public Private Partnership

72 PSB Partner Standardization Body

73 R&TTE Radio and Telecommunications Terminal Equipment

74 SC Steering Committee

75 SCM Smart City Mission

76 SCP Smart City Proposal

77 SDN Software Defined Network

78 SDO Standards Development Organizations

79 SESEI Seconded European Standardization Expert in India

80 SEZ Special Economic Zone

81 SG Study Groups

82 SI Study Items

83 SLDC State Load Despatch Center

84 SMB-SG4

Standardization Management Board - Strategic Group 4

85 SPV Special Purpose Vehicle

86 STEM Society for Technology Management

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87 SWIP Study Work Item Proposal

88 TC Technical Committee

89 TEC Telecommunications Engineering Centre

90 TSDSI Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India

91 TRAI Telecom Regulatory Authority of India

92 ULB Urban Local Bodies

93 UT Union Teritories

94 WG Working Groups

95 WI Work Items