Bangladesh Standards and Testing Institution (BSTI) observed World Standards Day amid various programmes across the country yesterday.
Posters, festoons and banners highlighting BSTI services marked the day countrywide, says a press release.
The theme of the 41st world standards day this year is ''standards make the world accessible for all''.
BSTI also arranged discussions at divisional cities including one at its office in the capital with top businesspersons and government officials.
Industries Minister Dilip Barua, the chief guest at the discussion in the capital, said there is no alternative to modernising BSTI to expand export of country's products.
BSTI Director General AK Fazlul Ahad said the theme of this year's world standards day is time-befitting.
With the speeches of president, prime minister, industries minister and industries ministry secretary, special supplements were published in different dailies and special programmes were broadcast on radios and televisions marking the day.