IS 2347, Domestic Pressure Cooker: the 2023 edition, products covered, BIS testing, fees and the ISI mark

IS 2347 is the Indian Standard specification for domestic pressure cookers, and the Domestic Pressure Cooker QCO makes it compulsory^[1]. It covers the body, lid, gasket, pressure regulating device (the weight or whistle), safety relief devices, handles, coatings and the pressure tests that prove a cooker is safe^[9].

BIS's standards portal lists the current edition as IS 2347:2023 (Seventh Revision), an indigenous Indian product specification kept by committee MED 33, the Utensils, Cutlery and Domestic Hardware Sectional Committee^[2]. "Indigenous" matters: unlike the electrical standards on this site, there is no IEC or ISO twin, so a foreign test certificate cannot simply be mapped across.

We do not reproduce the standard's text; buy it from BIS. This page explains its editions, scope, testing, fees and how it connects to the ISI mark, the pressure cooker QCO and the pressure cooker import guide.

IS 2347 covers the cooker as a finished product; a few other standards and orders cover its parts, its cousins and the paperwork around it. Knowing which is which stops you testing to the wrong document.

Check the edition, the licence scope, the gasket, the markings, the test report age and the factory. These six checks catch most problems before goods ship; the approval checker confirms nothing else applies.

IS 2347:2023 applies. BIS published the revision in 2023 and set 28 March 2024 as the last date to implement it^[3].

The paperwork still mentions 2017 in two places:

• The QCO of January 2020 names IS 2347:2017^[1], and BIS's Scheme-I list still shows that edition^[16].
• The order's own note resolves it: the latest version of the standard, with amendments, applies from the date BIS notifies it^[1].

BIS's February 2025 product manual is written for IS 2347:2023 with one amendment^[17], while the standards portal showed no amendment issued when we checked^[2]. Treat the product manual as the operative document and ask your lab which amendment state it tests to.

The marking fee did not change with the edition: Rs 46,000 minimum and Rs 0.87 per piece^[8].

The 2023 revision tightened materials and added tests, especially for electric and induction-base cookers. BIS's implementation guidelines list the changes^[3]; the table summarises them without quoting the standard.

Every domestic pressure cooker under the QCO needs IS 2347^[1]. The order lists no HS codes^[1], so coverage follows the product description, not the tariff line.

Aluminium cookers are commonly declared under tariff item 7615 10 11, as reported in tariff practice^[23]. Stainless steel and 3-ply cookers fall in other chapters, but the QCO still applies because the scope is the product. Use the HS code approval finder to see what else attaches to your code.

BIS's licence scope shows how far the standard reaches^[5]:

Yes, if they are pressure cookers: the licence scope has an "external/integral electrical heat source" option^[5], and the 2023 edition adds specific requirements for electric pressure cookers^[3].

The electrical side is a separate question. The household appliances QCO covers electrical appliances up to 250 V single-phase^[12] but steps aside for any appliance already under another QCO^[12]. Whether an electric pressure cooker sits only under the pressure cooker order, or also needs IS 302 testing, is not settled by anything we have read; ask BIS before you tool up. See IS 302 (Part 1) and the appliances QCO.

Plain pots, pans and kadhais are not pressure cookers. Stainless steel and aluminium utensils fall under the cookware QCO instead^[11].

BIS tests one cooker (two with an induction bottom) plus a spare gasket, regulator and relief device, and all tests except coatings can be done in a day^[6].

The scheme of inspection and testing covers^[9]:

• Capacity and materials of the body, lid, safety relief device, gasket (to IS 7466), handles, pressure regulating device, vent parts and spring.
• Construction: pressure regulating device, safety relief device and temperature-responsive device.
• Coatings: for hard-anodised cookers, thickness, abrasion, hardness, staining and alkali resistance.
• Pressure tests: air pressure, proof pressure, the operating test of the regulator, the safety relief device test, bursting pressure and lid removal under pressure.

Since the 2023 revision, labs also run the pressure-drop test after relief-device operation and, where relevant, the induction-bottom and electric-cooker tests^[3].

BIS's laboratory system lists IS 2347:2023 test charges from Rs 24,000 to Rs 56,000, excluding taxes^[7]. These are lab fees, separate from BIS's own fees.

BIS's own labs (Central, Northern, Southern and Western Regional, and Bengaluru branch) also test IS 2347, and the portal counted 19 laboratories against the standard on 1 November 2026^[2][7]. For lab choice by city, see BIS labs, Delhi NCR labs and Bengaluru labs.

BIS checks that the factory can make and test cookers consistently, not just that one sample passed. A licence is granted after BIS assesses infrastructure, process control, quality control and testing capability through a visit^[24].

For pressure cookers that means the control-unit tests above, gasket conformity, and records. Since 16 December 2025 a factory no longer needs its own lab; it may use shared or sub-contracted BIS-recognised or ISO/IEC 17025 labs, and the product manual's testing scheme is recommendatory^[25]. BIS has also allowed licensees to share anodizing facilities since January 2023^[20].

Inspection costs Rs 7,000 per man-day^[15]. After grant, BIS runs surprise factory visits and buys marked cookers in the market for testing^[15].

The Domestic Pressure Cooker QCO, S.O. 294(E) of 21 January 2020, made IS 2347 compulsory^[22]. It was to start on 1 August 2020; an amendment moved that to 1 February 2021^[1][4].

The order has no MSME, R&D or old-stock relief; only goods for export are outside it^[1]. BIS's Scheme-I list showed no rescission or later amendment on 1 November 2026^[16]. Track dates in the QCO tracker or with the QCO deadline checker.

Through BIS's Foreign Manufacturers Certification Scheme, which covers every product except MeitY-notified electronics^[26]. The foreign manufacturer applies; an importer cannot apply on its behalf^[27].

BIS gives about six months as the average FMCS grant time from a complete application^[29]. Each extra variety costs Rs 5,000 to include later^[30], so plan the capacity groups and coatings you will sell before applying. See BIS FMCS and FMCS fees.

Most problems are about scope and paperwork, but BIS treats almost every test parameter as critical. Its May 2024 guidance lists only coatings, the stainless-steel staining test and a few markings as non-critical when a surveillance sample fails^[18].

BIS charges Rs 1,000 to apply, Rs 7,000 per man-day of inspection, Rs 1,000 a year as licence fee and the IS 2347 minimum marking fee^[15]. Lab testing is extra.

These examples add BIS's published fees to listed lab charges. They assume one inspection man-day for illustration; BIS decides the actual number.

1. Large Indian factory, simplified procedure. Application Rs 1,000 + one man-day Rs 7,000 + licence fee Rs 1,000 + minimum marking fee Rs 46,000^[15][8] + a Rs 32,500 test at Indian Testing Laboratory^[7] = Rs 87,500 before GST. BIS's average grant time on this route is about one month^[15].

2. The same factory sells 1,00,000 cookers a year. At Rs 0.87 each the actual marking fee is Rs 87,000, above the Rs 46,000 minimum^[8]. A BIS grant letter, as reported, says the higher of minimum and actual is payable^[32], worked out from a CA-certified production statement at renewal^[33].

3. Micro enterprise. The minimum marking fee drops to Rs 9,200^[8]. With Rs 1,000 + Rs 7,000 + Rs 1,000 and a Rs 24,000 test^[7], the first-year BIS-plus-lab bill is Rs 42,200.

4. Foreign factory under FMCS. Domestic fees apply, plus a Rs 10,000 contingency payment and officer travel^[30], and a USD 10,000 bank guarantee after grant^[29]. Adding a stainless-steel range later costs Rs 5,000 per variety or group^[30].

Run your own numbers in the compliance cost estimator, and see BIS ISI licence costs.

Selling or importing notified goods without a valid Standard Mark breaches section 17 of the BIS Act^[34]. The penalty is up to two years' imprisonment or a fine of at least Rs 2 lakh (Rs 5 lakh for repeat offences), up to ten times the value of the goods^[34].

If marked goods fail, BIS can direct a stop to supply and a recall^[34]. Consumer regulators act too: CCPA ordered Amazon in 2022 to recall and refund 2,265 cookers sold in breach of the QCO and pay Rs 1,00,000^[21]. More in selling without BIS.

The ISI mark is the only product-safety approval the QCO requires, but importers usually also need:

• Plastic packaging EPR, because importers of any commodity with plastic packaging are covered^[35] and must register on CPCB's portal^[35]. See plastic EPR.
• LMPC registration for retail packs, on our reading of Rule 27^[36], at Rs 500^[37], with the Legal Metrology declarations on each pack^[38]. See LMPC and the label checker.

The QCO requires conformity to IS 2347 and the Standard Mark under a Scheme-I licence^[1]. BIS's manual requires the mark on each cooker, and the CM/L number and the line "For details of BIS certification please visit www.bis.gov.in" on the product or package^[6].

A licence may be granted for up to two years and renewed for up to five^[15]. Diarise renewal with the licence renewal date tool and see ISI renewal and ISI documents. Need a second opinion? Ask for a free compliance check.

• The standards portal showed no amendment to IS 2347:2023, while the February 2025 manual records one^[2][17]. We could not read the amendment.
• Whether electric pressure cookers also need IS 302 (Part 1) testing under the appliances QCO is not settled in anything we read^[12].
• Lab charges are what labs list on BIS's system and can change^[7].