While General Body is the apex decision making body of TSDSI, the Governing Council (GC) steers and governs it in the intervals between the General Body meetings. The GC consists of 21 elected, 8 Government nominated members and 1 Special Invitee from DoT. GC has representation from all eleven verticals of the telecom sector. Two GC members are elected from each telecom vertical. The members of the GC, except those nominated by the Government of India, are elected by the General Body.
The Governing Council has a Chairperson and a Vice-Chairperson who are elected by the General Body from among the members of the Governing Council.
| Name | Position | Designation | Organization | |
| Telecom Network Equipment Manufacturers with Indian product related IPR / Licensed Indian design or technology | ||||
| 1 | Dr Kumar N Sivarajan | Member | Chief Technology Officer | Tejas Networks Ltd |
| 2 | Mr Anindya Saha | Member | Chief Technology Officer | Saankhya Labs Pvt. Ltd. |
| Domestic Telecom Network Equipment Manufacturers | ||||
| 1 | Mr Ashwani Kumar | Member | Vice President (Standards & Industry Development) | Huawei Telecommunications (India) Co. Pvt. Ltd. |
| 2 | Mr Manish Varma | Member |
Head of Services Strategy, Core Networks |
Nokia Solutions and Networks India Pvt. Ltd. |
| Telecom Service Providers | ||||
| 1 | Mr Satish Jamadagni | Vice Chairman | Vice President – Network Planning Engineering | Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited |
| 2 | Mr P. Balaji | Member | Chief Regulatory & Corporate Affairs Officer | Vodafone Idea Limited |
| Any Other Service Providers like Service providers under UL other than those in Sl no 3 above/ISP/VNO/ Cloud Service Providers, Broadcasters, etc | ||||
| 1 | Ms Vijaya Kamath | Member | Mentor | Sensorise Digital Services P Limited |
| 2 | Mr Neeraj Dindore | Member | Vice President – 5G Engineering | Tata Communications Ltd |
| Applications/ Solutions Developers/ Application Software / Service Platform Developers/ Digital communication Software Developers or providers of services mentioned here (but not covered in 3 & 4 above) | ||||
| 1 | Mr N. Ganapathy Subramaniam | Chairman | Chief Operating Officer & Executive Director | Tata Consultancy Services Limited |
| 2 | Dr. Manjunath Iyer | Member | Principal consultant | Wipro Limited |
| Semiconductor components designer/manufacturing | ||||
| 1 | Dr Saidhiraj Amuru | Member | Principal Research Engineer | WiSig Networks Pvt. Ltd |
| 2 | Dr Vinosh James | Member |
Associate Director, Technical Standards |
Qualcomm India Private Limited |
| Terminal Equipment Manufacturers: Manufacturers of Mobile Device / CPE/ End Use | ||||
| 1 | Mr Ganesh Shivalingaiah | Member | Carrier Technology Leader, Apple India. | Apple India Private Limited |
| 2 | Mr Prasanta Sarkar | Member | General Manager | Tata Motors |
| R&D organizations | ||||
| 1 | Dr J. Klutto Milleth | Member | Chief Technologist | Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology (CEWiT) |
| 2 | Dr Rajkumar Upadhyay | Member | Executive Director | Centre for Development of Telematics (C-DOT) |
| Academic Institutions | ||||
| 1 | Prof Abhay Karandikar | Member | Director | Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur |
| 2 | Prof K.V.S. Hari | Member | Professor | Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore |
| Government Department/ Statutory or Autonomous bodies/ organisations set up by the Government or Statutory or autonomous bodies | ||||
| 1 | Mr D.K. Agrawal | Member | Senior GM | Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited |
| 2 | Mr Hanumantha Rayappa | Member | Associate Director | Indian Space Research Organization |
| Any other entity in ICT enabled product manufacturing/service/solution provider domain | ||||
| 1 | Mr Sandeep Kapoor | Member | Director of Marketing | Keysight Technologies India Private Limited |
| Government Nominees | ||||
| 1 | Mr R.K. Pathak | Member | DDG(IC) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 2 | Mr R R Mittar | Member | Senior DDG-TEC | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 3 | Mr RK Saxena | Member | Wireless Advisor | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 4 | Mr Puspendra Kumar Singh | Member | DDG(Security Assurance) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 5 | Mr Dindayal Toshniwal | Member | DDG(NT) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 6 | Mr Kishore Babu | Member | DDG(SRI) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 7 | Mr SK Marwah | Member | Scientist G and Group Coordinator | Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India |
| 8 | Mr Rajeev Sharma | Member | DDG | Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) |
| 9 | Dr Rajeev Kandpal | Special Invitee | DDG(Finance) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
Please click the buttons below to access the Past Governing Council Member list.
TSDSI’s 3rd Governing Council TSDSI’s 2nd Governing Council TSDSI’s Ist Governing Council