World Standards day is celebrated every year on October 14. The theme for World Standards Day in 2016 is ‘Standards Build Trust‘. The aim of World Standards Day is to raise awareness among regulators, industry and consumers as to the importance of standardization to the global economy. Globally, World Standards day for the first time was celebrated on 1970.

• World Standard Day has been set aside to create awareness on the role of standards in both national and global economies and to pay tribute to the thousands of experts worldwide who collaborated within the International Electro-Technical Commission (IEC), International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the International Organisation for Standardization (IS) to develop voluntary international standards.
• World Standards Day was observed to create awareness about the quality and safety of products.
• A product or service conforming to an international standard is imbued with a trusted symbol of quality, safety or compatibility.
• Consumer affairs minister Ram Vilas Paswan has said that in order to make the make In India Campaign Successful it is important to improve the quality of the products.
• Government is also focusing on Developing Universal standards of products so that Consumers get better Quality.
• Idea behind World Standards Day is to increase the Standard of the products so that quality of the product can also be increase.
• World Standards Day also aims at spreading awareness about the standard of the product amongst the consumers.