On 12 June 2025, the Ministry of Heavy Industries issued the Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Amendment Order, 2025 (S.O. 2579(E)), revising key compliance deadlines under the 2024 Omnibus Technical Regulation.”
The amendment extends the mandatory BIS Scheme certification timeline for all machinery and electrical equipment listed in the First Schedule to 1 September 2026, replacing the original “one year from publication” deadline.
The First Schedule of the Machinery & Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) covers a wide range of machinery and electrical equipment (including assemblies, sub-assemblies, and components) across over 400 products. While a full list is extensive, it includes key categories such as:
Pumps, compressors, and centrifuges
Metalworking machines including lathes, milling machines, drills, presses, grinders
Textile machinery (weaving, knitting, spinning)
Packaging, rubber, and plastic processing equipment
Construction and earth-moving machinery (excluding those under CMVR)
Cranes, hoists, lifts, conveyors
Transformers, generators, switchgear, and electrical control gear
Other heavy capital goods and industrial systems
Additionally, it postpones the deadline for assemblies, sub-assemblies, and components to a future date to be notified separately by the Central Government, allowing a phased regulation approach.
We thank the GST Council for accepting many of its recommendations at the 53rd GST Council Meeting in New Delhi
The US-India Tax Forum, a dedicated tax policy forum of USISPF, extends its gratitude to the GST Council for accepting many of our recommendations at the recently held 53rd GST Council Meeting in New Delhi.We also thank Deloitte India Mahesh Jaising for their support in taking forward critical issues with the Ministry of Finance.The recommendations of US-India Tax Forum aimed to address significant ease of doing business challenges and promote investments and economic opportunities in India.We remain committed to building on this momentum, addressing areas for reform in GST 2.0 and advocating for better tax policies to improve the ease of doing business environment.
