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 | |
| CAT 1 Telecom Network Equipment Manufacturers with Indian product related IPR / Licensed Indian design or technology | ||||
| 1 | Dr. Sreenath Ramanath | Member | Director, Systems R&D | Lekha Wireless Solutions Pvt Ltd |
| 2 | Dr Kumar N Sivarajan | Member | Chief Technology Officer | Tejas Networks Ltd |
| CAT 2 Domestic Telecom Network Equipment Manufacturers | ||||
| 1 | Dr. Sendil Kumar Devar | Member | General Manager – Standardization & Spectrum | Ericsson India Pvt. Ltd. |
| 2 | Dr. Manikantan Srinivasan | Member | Assistant General Manager | NEC Corporation India Pvt Ltd |
| CAT 3 Telecom Service Providers | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Rahul Vatts | Member | Chief Regulatory Officer | Bharti Airtel Limited |
| 2 | Mr. Mukesh Ghuriani | Member | Vice-President, Network Planning | Tata Teleservices Limited (TTSL) |
| CAT 4 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. |
| CAT 5 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 | Mr. Kiran P.V.N.N | Member | Head Innovations & Proto Labs, CTO | Wipro Limited |
| CAT 6 Semiconductor components designer/manufacturing | ||||
| 1 | Dr. Samar Shailendra | Member | Senior Standards Architect, Next Generation & Standards | Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd |
| 2 | Dr. Saidhiraj Amuru | Member |
Associate Director, Technical Standards |
WiSig Networks Pvt. Ltd |
| CAT 7 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. Suresh Chitturi | Vice Chairman | Senior Director, Standards Research Group | Samsung R&D Institute India – Bangalore (SRI-B) |
| CAT 8 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) |
| CAT 9 Academic Institutions | ||||
| 1 | Dr. Prasanna Chaporkar | Member | Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Bombay |
| 2 | Prof. Bhaskar Ramamurthi | Member | Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| CAT 10 Government Department/ Statutory or Autonomous bodies/ organisations set up by the Government or Statutory or autonomous bodies | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Satheesh G | Member | Scientist-G | Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (CDAC) |
| 2 | Ms. Anuradha Agarwal | Member | Additional Director General | Prasar Bharati |
| CAT 11 Any other entity in ICT enabled product manufacturing/service/solution provider domain | ||||
| 1 | Vacant | |||
| 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 VJ Christopher | 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 | Mr K N Jha | Special Invitee | DDG(AM) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
Please click the buttons below to access the Past Governing Council Member list.
TSDSI’s 4th Governing Council TSDSI’s 3rd Governing Council TSDSI’s 2nd Governing Council TSDSI’s Ist Governing Council