Best foot forward: Will local sizes help?

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Livemint 1 min read 24 Apr 2024, 08:00 AM IST

To regenerate a size strategy we inherited from the British Raj, Bha proposes 8 footwear sizes, covering infants to adults.

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An Indian footwear size strategy has been developed by researchers aft a pan-India survey that progressive taking 3D scans of Indians' feet to survey however they are typically shaped. Are we going to get amended footwear comfortableness if it’s adopted?

As India strives for much locally made stuff, here’s 1 much happening that could articulation the list: a footwear size system. Christened Bha, it has been developed by researchers astatine the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research–Central Leather Research Institute (CSIR–CLRI), which works nether the ministry of commerce, aft a pan-India survey of 101,880 individuals that progressive taking 3D scans of their feet to survey however Indian feet are typically shaped.

They were recovered to beryllium wider than Western ones. To regenerate a size strategy we inherited from the British Raj, Bha proposes 8 footwear sizes, covering infants to adults. The British strategy has 10 sizes, but is wasn’t made with the remainder of the world’s feet successful mind. Footwear designed for Indians based connected Bha tin beryllium expected to connection greater comfort.

This is portion of the transportation for a switchover by India’s footwear industry. CSIR-CLRI has submitted its recommendations to the Department of Promotion of Industry and Internal Trade, besides nether the ministry of commerce, which has reportedly forwarded them to the Bureau of Indian Standards for approval. Shoppers, of course, would beryllium funny to spot what quality it makes.

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