New Delhi, March 2 -- In a regulatory overhaul aimed at easing compliance and supporting domestic manufacturing, the government has introduced a self-declaration route for select products under the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) framework, eliminating mandatory pre-licence factory inspections while tightening annual compliance requirements, two government officials aware of the matter said.

This marks a structural shift in India's quality conformity assessment regime that will result in phasing out mandatory pre-licence factory inspections for products notified under BIS's revised Scheme-II framework, rather than routine inspections across all schemes.

Instead of relying heavily on prior on-site assessment, the revised framework place...