On 12 June 2025 India's Ministry of Heavy Industries (MHI) issued an official order entitled the Machinery and Electrical Equipment Safety (Omnibus Technical Regulation) Amendment Order, 2025, amending the original Omnibus Technical Regulation Order published in 2024.

Change to the effective date

The original provision that the regulation would take effect one year after publication in the Official Gazette is repealed. The mandatory application date is now fixed at 1 September 2026.

Scope clarified

The order applies to the following machinery and electrical equipment, and to their assemblies, sub-assemblies and components:

1. pumps of all types for handling liquids, and liquid elevators

2. compressors of all types

3. machinery of all types for treating materials by processes involving a change of temperature

4. centrifuges of all types, and machinery for filtering or purifying liquids and gases

5. machinery of all types for filling, closing, sealing, labelling bottles, packing or packaging

6. cranes of all types

7. machinery of all types for construction, earthmoving and mining

8. looms of all types

9. embroidery machinery of all kinds

10. metal cutting machine tools of all kinds

11. machine tools of all types for working stone, ceramics, concrete and asbestos cement

12. machinery of all types for working rubber and plastics

13. machines of all types, including public works and building machinery, and machinery and mechanical appliances with individual functions not elsewhere specified

14. gears and gearing of all types, toothed wheels, sprockets, transmission elements, ball or roller screws, gearboxes and transmissions

15. rotating electrical machines of all types

16. diesel generating sets of all types

17. transformers of all types

18. power semiconductor converters of all types

19. switchgear and control gear of all types for voltages not exceeding 1,000 V

20. switchgear and control gear of all types for voltages above 1,000 V

Impact

The amendment gives industry a clearer compliance timetable. Companies must ensure that the machinery, electrical equipment, assemblies, sub-assemblies and components they produce within the scope of the first schedule meet the applicable Indian safety standards before the respective deadlines.