Another positive step in enhancing the extent of product safety and comprehensiveness of the regulations in the country is the official announcement of the Government of India regarding the Second Amendment to the Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Order, 2025. It may sound strange that at first glance the amendment appears to be quite technical; however, it has huge implications for manufacturers, importers and other parties within the supply chain that deal with machinery and electrical equipment and their constituents.
We believe that the changes in regulations will not be heavy and mystical at Induce India. This amendment is made simpler in this blog, explaining why it was implemented, why action is needed to maintain and be relevant in the future.
The knowledge of the Omnibus Technical Regulation (OTR)
The Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Order was put in force to ensure that there is a single standard in place in regards to the sale or the use of the machinery and the electrical equipment in India. Instead of the product thus being subject to the various and disjointed orders, the OTR itself regulates several sets of products under one unified regulation.
The main benefits of the OTR will be to provide assurance that the machinery and electrical equipment offered on the Indian market can meet the determined safety standards, reduce the chances of accidents, and ensure that local production is consistent with the national standards that were adopted in India. The compliance of OTR is checked by the issuing and enforcing authority, which is the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS).
What is then different in the Second Amendment?
The 2 nd amendment order, 2025, notification, dated 13 November 2025, contains an essential clarification of the topic of assemblies, sub-assemblies and components, entry to which is appended to the First Schedule to the OTR.
The former rule was that these would be subjected to fulfil a given period in a mandatory manner. This approach in the amendment is replaced with a more adaptive mechanism. It provides that assemblies, sub-assemblies, and components should be regarded as a part of the OTR as of such date as the Central Government may direct to specify it in the Official Gazette singly.
Practically, this may be argued to mean:
- The entire machinery and electrical equipment remain on compliance timetables, which had previously been declared.
- Introduction will be more noted, rather than on a one-day basis, and the components and assemblies will be regulated gradually.
The shift itself does not result in any safety reduction; it just makes the work of such a reduction more realistic.
Compliance Timelines: What Works
Persevered, what should be perceived. Machinery and electrical equipment referred to in the First Schedule, in particular the OTR, should have a compliance date of 1 September 2026. The manufacturers and importers of such products were supposed to have fulfilled all the requirements of Indian Standards along with BIS certification before this date.
This is not changed under the Second Amendment. It merely gives components and sub-assemblies some level of latitude, the compliance dates of which will be keyed in in the future.
What was the necessity of the Amendment?
Some of the issues that can be worked on at the regulatory level are also viable under the amendment.
To begin with, assemblies and components are of different designs, applications, and risks. It will impose a strain on the certification systems and testing laboratories to have but one date of compliance on all such items.
Second, multinational supply networks consist of many components. The gradual method will allow the manufacturers as well as importers to align the records, testing, and certification with no sudden hitches in production or importation.
Third, the regulation permits the regulators to grant the high-risk elements priority first, before they strive to attain the goal of safety, at the cost of the sustenance of the industry.
Who is Falling Under the Influence of this Amendment?
The Second Amendment covers a vast percentage of the industry, in that:
- Electrical equipment manufacturers and machinery manufacturers.
- Assemblies, sub-assemblies and components suppliers.
- The traders and the importers of the controlled products.
- OEMs that are subject to third-party inputs of components.
- Compliance teams, quality and regulatory teams.
Businesses, including those that only produce or import components, should take this amendment into consideration since everything will be a subject of compulsory compliance that will soon be announced as announced by the Gazette will be published.
What Businesses ought to do at present.
This, however, is not the time to rest on their laurel since independent notification dates of the components are yet to be announced. According to Induce India, being prepared to avoid last-minute compliance issues is better.
The first thing you should start with is to identify whether your products belong to either of the two categories: machinery, electrical equipments or components of the OTR. Under this classification, your short-term liabilities as well as your long-term exposure to risks will be determined.
Then initiate internal compliance preparedness. These include reviewing the applicable Indian Standards, comparing the product designs with the safety standards and writing technical reports such as drawings, test reports and risk assessment.
Involvement of testing laboratories with the BIS-accreditation can also be suggested at an early age. At the same time compliance dates come around, the capacity in the lab might become a bottleneck, and this could lead to delays that are bound to impact market access.
Finally, the business should be very attentive to the notifications issued by the Official Gazette. However, since it is evident in the Second Amendment that compliance dates of components will be granted separately, one needs to be kept in the know.
Effect on the Manufacturing and Imports
In the short term, the amendment will be a relief to the industries dealing with components and sub-assemblies. It would reduce the level of regulatory pressure at any particular time and, at the same time, achieve the long-term safety objectives of the government.
The amendment enhances the shift of India to a higher level of safety and quality in the medium-long term. Companies that are prepared early are going to have a competitive advantage over the institutions that take excessively long before enforcing them, this is because once they begin enforcement, they will end up experiencing inconveniences.
Conformance will be introduced progressively to the importers as a mechanism of getting clearance at the customs, and this increases the documentation and certification planning.
Induce India’s Perspective
When it comes to the case of Induce India, we interpret the Second Amendment as a fairly moderate regulatory measure; it will not ruin the operations of industrial operations. It means that the government will be eager to institute technical regulations in a rather prudent way and give the industry its own time in adjusting its systems, processes, and supply chain.
The most privileged companies to easily adapt to the amendment would be firms that perceive this amendment as a red flag and not a delay. The issue of regulatory preparedness no longer enjoys choice but is strategic.
Conclusion
The Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Order, 2025, in terms of the Second Amendment, has a degree of clarity, flexibility and phasing, especially on assemblies and components. Even when full machinery and electrical equipment are supposed to be installed in line with it by 1 September 2026, parts will have an alternative schedule, which is to be notified independently.
The amendment has great potential to advantage the industry since it is possible to prepare in advance. The companies which invest today in compliance planning, documentation and testing will not only meet the demands of the regulatory bodies, but they will also achieve trust, safety and credibility in the market. India has been identified in ensuring that it ensures that the businesses do not show complacency, follow up, and lack of familiarity with these changes in regulations and the growth of the business is compliance-based.
