Digital Twins Standards Forum

https://digitaltwins.theiet.org/

Kashmir Singh LL.B, LL.M, C.Eng, FIET, Project Management NVQ; former member of statutory OFWAT water industry customer services committee for England and Wales, Institution of Electrical Engineers/ Institution of Engineering and Technology Council

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Previous British Sikh Federation successful campaigns to safeguard British Sikh Rights and to help others over many years, www.britishsikhfederation.com e.g.

•  work as bus drivers and conductors wearing turbans (1969),
•  wear turbans on construction sites (Employment Act 1989, sections 11 and 12),
•  overwhelming support in the European Parliament on an Urgency Resolution for a Sikh newspaper editor's release from prison against the then UK Government (1996),
•  more jobs needed in BBC for Asian and Black ethnic minorities (1990s)
•  BBC Bitesize for school children doing O'levels/ GCSEs (1998),
•  defence for Sikh school children to wear Kirpan (1996),
• Government funded state schools for Sikhs, Muslims, Hindus, other faiths (1997)
• right for Sikh workers at UK airports to wear Kirpan (2002),
•  opening British Embassy offices in Panjab and Gujarat (2003),
•  Government commitment to set up Commission for Equalities and Human Rights (2004),
•  EHRC Guidelines on the wearing of Sikh articles of faith (2010),
•  construction sites exemption extended to most workplaces (Deregulation Act 2015, sections 6 and 7; HSE and government websites),
• BBC Punjabi language service (2017),
•  Gender Pay Gap Information Act 2017,
•  Labour Party General Election commitment to extend pay gap reporting to Asian and black ethnic minorities (Nov 2019),
•  Lower electricity prices for renewables and nuclear power (Energy Price Act 2022)
• Ethnicity and disability pay gap reporting legislation commitment (2026)