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| 10.2. RECOMMENDATIONS While quality standards have been developed fora large number of engineering products, there are no known standards for the automotive sector. These need to be developed to ensure an acceptable level of quality. A mechanism available to ensure process control is through the International Standards Organisation’s certified Quality Assurance surveyors. This is not seen yet in the automotive sector. 99 Safety standards are laid out in the Motor Vehicles Rules which unfortunately are not standardised across the country. The first step should be to establish the standards and have these approved by sub-national governments. No vehicle is examined in Pakistan as there is no facility available which can test these. Further, there is no trained examiner available with the Offices of the Motor Vehicles Examiner. It is suggested that help should besought from such agencies as the Transports Internationaux Routiers or International Road Transport (TIR) or the Transport and Road Research Laboratories to help establish these facilities and operate these fora few years. In the interim the human resource skills need to be established and a transparent system for examinations developed and implemented. The survey respondents, both OEMs and vendors, were also asked what measures are required to protect the automobile industry from possible serious injury from Indian imports, as contained in WTO and SAFTA* provisions. The proposals put forward areas follows Download 0.77 Mb. Share with your friends:
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