Textiles Committee has the largest chain of 19 textile testing laboratories across India, out of which 14 are accredited as per ISO/IEC 17025. Under the Mutual Recognition Agreement (MRA) of International Laboratory Accreditation Co-operation (ILAC) the test reports issued by NABL accredited laboratories are considered to be equivalent to report issued by laboratories accredited by 76 accreditation bodies (currently) in 65 economics.  Textiles Committee was the first to open at 9 major textile centres to test eco parameters after the imposition of ban on certain carcinogenic azo dyes by Germany and other European countries.  The ECOMARK scheme of BIS has been developed in collaboration with laboratories of Textiles Committee.  The laboratories were primarily set up to cover the mandatory requirement of the union government as per Textiles Committee Act 1963 as mentioned below: 

• Undertaking, assisting and encouraging Scientific and Technological research in textiles Industry, under Section. 4(2)(a) of the Act
• Establish or adopt or recognize standard specifications for textiles and packing materials used in packing of textiles or textile machinery, under Section 4(2)(c) of the Act
• Establishing laboratory and test houses for the testing of textiles, under Section 4(2)(f) of the Act
• Providing for testing of textiles and textile machinery in laboratories and test houses, under Section 4(2)(g) of the Act

Provision of Testing under Different Acts

Laboratories are rendering testing & Technical services as per following different provisions of Central Government. 

• After promulgation of German ban for harmful Aryl amines (Azo Dyes),  testing for ecological parameters were established during 1996 – 97
• Textile (Consumer Protection) Regulation, 1988;

• Textile (Development and Regulation) order, 1993
• Handlooms (Reservation of Articles for production) Act, 1985
• Commercial testing of Textiles (Amendment) Regulation 1995 under Textiles Committee Act
• DGFT Notification No. 3 (RE-2001)/97-02 dated 31.03.2001 amended by DGFT notification 29 (RE) dated 28 January 2004, for presence of banned Aryl amines and other parameters aiding classification. Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) for the clearance of Export and Import consignments 454.92 KB
• Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Government of India notification No. 26/2004-09, to test imported consignments of wool and woolen products.

The chronological order of setting up of laboratories is as below. 

Sl. No	Location	Year of Establishment of Laboratory		Year of Accreditation
		Mech & Chem.	Eco
1	Mumbai	1969-70	1995-96	1994-95
2	New Delhi	1973-74	1995-96	2000-01
3	Chennai	1973-74	1996-97	2002-03
4	Coimbatore	1973-74	--	2002-03
5	Kanpur	1974-75	--	2005-06
6	Madurai	1975-76 (Under PPP since 2004)
7	Kolkata	1975-76	2014-15	2006-07
8	Ludhiana	1981-82	1996-97	2005-06
9	Bangalore	1983-84	2001-02	2002-03
10	Ahmadabad	1984-85	---	---
11	Jaipur	1991-92	1996-97	2005-06
12	Tirupur	1994-95	1995-96	2000-01
13	Karur	1994-95	2003-04	2002-03
14	Hyderabad	1994-95	---	2005-06
15	Cannanore	1996-97	1996-97	2002-03
16	Guntur	2000-01	---	2006-07
17	Panipat	2009-10	---	----
18	JNPT, Navi Mumbai	2016-17	2016-17	----
19	Cochin	2016-17	2016-17	----

 

Following are the details of the Sr. officials posted in the Laboratories of Textiles Committee. They may be contacted for any service related to the laboratories  :

Sr.	Details of the Sr. Officials
1	Kartikay Dhanda Director(Labs) Ph +91 22 66527719 dlab[dot]tc[at]nic[dot]in tclabmumbai[at]gmail[dot]com
2	Dr. K. S. Muralidhara Jt. Director(Labs) +91 22 66527542 texcomlabmurali[at]gmail[dot]com
3	K.Selvaraj Dy. Director(Labs) +91 22 66527544 texraj[at]gmail[dot]com
4	Dr.P.Ravichandran Dy. Director(Labs) +91 22 66527545 texcomravi[at]gmail[dot]com
5	B.S. Patil Dy. Director(Labs) +91 44 24640740 chennai[dot]tc[at]nic[dot]in rotcchennai[at]gmail[dot]com