NIC has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) for a project on "Integrated Computerisation of BIS activities". The BIS has its Headquarters and one Regional office in Delhi, 4 Regional Offices at Chandigarh, Kolkatta,Chennai and Mumbai and 21 branch offices spread all over India, along with 5 BIS Laboratories. As per terms of reference under the MoU, signed by Sh K M Sahni, DG (BIS) and Dr. N Vijayaditya, DG (NIC), NIC is to take up integrated paid projects relating to application development, hardware / software requirement analysis, procurement and implementation of the same, networking, training of BIS manpower etc.