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SIH26107SoftwareSmart Automation

Al-powered Intelligent Assistant for Indian Standards and BIS Services for Industries and Consumers

Ministry of Consumer Affairs, Food & Public Distribution

Ideas submitted
174 / 500
Deadline
30 September 2026
Category
Software
Theme
Smart Automation

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AI / MLIoT / EmbeddedChatbots / Voice

• Background The Bureau of Indian Standards publishes thousands of Indian Standards and provides various services such as product certification, hallmarking, laboratory recognition, Standards Clubs, training, consumer affairs, and conformity assessment. • At present, users often struggle to identify: • Applicable Indian Standards for their products, • Certification requirements, • Relevant BIS schemes, • Licensing procedures, • Testing requirements, • Related standards, and • Answers to technical queries.

Searching through multiple documents, portals, and PDFs is time-consuming, particularly MSMEs, startups, students, and consumers.

• Description Develop an Al-powered conversational assistant that enables users to obtain accurate, context-aware, and source-backed information related to Indian Standards and BIS services through natural language interactions.

The assistant should understand user queries in plain language, retrieve relevant information from authorized BIS knowledge sources, and provide responses with references to the documents or clauses which ever are applicable.

• Expected Solution The software solution consists of a Intelligent Assistant or Agent which can • Answer questions related to Indian Standards. • Recommend applicable standards based on product descriptions. • Provide guidance on BIS certification schemes. • Explain certification processes. • Answer consumer-related queries. • Guide users regarding hallmarking. • Suggest relevant testing laboratories. • Support multilingual interaction.

How contested this one is

as of 28 Sept
174ideas submitted+43 in 2 days

That puts it 62nd of the 240 statements that have any ideas at all, out of 240 on the board. It is moving, so the field here is already forming.

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What a jury will ask about this

  1. 01“Who actually faces this problem today?”

    What works: Naming one real person and what they do instead right now. Reading the statement back is not an answer, they already read it.

  2. 02“This already exists. Why yours?”

    What works: That existing tools are consumer products. Yours is built for the ministry, works offline, in the local language, on official data.

  3. 03“Then why has nobody solved it yet?”

    What works: The real blocker. No connectivity, no incentive, nobody owns the data. You only know this if you read the ministry's own reports.

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