This document provides information on the disclosure of a public safety standard by the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) to promote transparency and access to information. It aims to make this standard available, especially to disadvantaged communities and those in education, so that important information can be disseminated accurately to the public in a timely manner. The attached document is the 1964 edition of the BIS handbook for structural engineers, which provides structural steel section properties to facilitate design computations for steel structures according to the Indian code of practice.