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 17 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 | Mr. Jayanta Dey | Member | HFCL | |
| 2 | Mr. Jishnu A | Member | Tejas Networks Limited | |
| CAT 2 Domestic Telecom Network Equipment Manufacturers | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Ashwani Kumar | Member | Head of Spectrum & 6G Engagement | Nokia |
| 2 | – | – | – | Vacant |
| CAT 3 Telecom Service Providers | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Satish Jamadagni | Chair | Senior Vice President – Head of Global Standards | Reliance Jio |
| 2 | Mrs. Ambika Khurana | Vodafone Idea limited | ||
| 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 | Mr. Jaspreet Singh | Member | Director & Founder | Kirat Communications (OPC) Private Limited |
| 2 | – | – | – | Vacant |
| 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 | Dr. Venkata Subramanian Viraraghavan |
Member | Tata Consultancy Services Limited | |
| 2 | Mr. Hargovind Prasad Bansal |
Member | Hnnoix India Private Limited | |
| CAT 6 Semiconductor components designer/manufacturing | ||||
| 1 | Dr. Vinosh Babu James | Member | Qualcomm | |
| 2 | Mr. Naresh Vattikuti | Member |
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WiSig Networks |
| CAT 7 Terminal Equipment Manufacturers: Manufacturers of Mobile Device / CPE/ End Use | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Ganesh Shivalingaiah | Member | Apple India Private Limited | |
| 2 | – | – | – | Vacant |
| CAT 8 R&D organizations | ||||
| 1 | Dr. J Klutto Milleth | Member | – | Centre of Excellence in Wireless Technology IIT Madras |
| 2 | Dr. N. Subramanian | Member | – | SETS |
| CAT 9 Academic Institutions | ||||
| 1 | Prof. Kiran Kumar Kuchi | Member | Professor | Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad |
| 2 | Prof. Radha Krishna Ganti | 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 | Dr. A Paventhan | Member | – | ERNET |
| 2 | – | – | – | Vacant |
| CAT 11 Any other entity in ICT enabled product manufacturing/service/solution provider domain | ||||
| 1 | Mr. Mohmedsaeed J. Mombasawala | Member | Keysight Technologies India Pvt. Ltd. | |
| Government Nominees | ||||
| 1 | Mr Ashok Kumar Jain | Member | DDG(IP) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 2 | Mr Syed Tausif Abbas | Member | Senior DDG & Head -TEC | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 3 | Mr NK Bhola | Member | Wireless Advisor | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 4 | Mr Mehul R Joshi | Member | DDG(Security Assurance) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 5 | Mr Atul Kumar Singh | Member | DDG(NT) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 6 | Mr Ashok Kumar | Member | DDG UP(W) | Department of Telecommunications, Govt. of India |
| 7 | Mr Manoj Kumar Jain | Member | Scientist ‘G’ & Group Coordinator (R&D in CC&BT) | Ministry of Electronics & Information Technology (MeitY), Govt. of India |
| 8 | Ms Reena Garg | Member | Scientist G & Head (LITD) | Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) |
| 9 | – | – | – | – |
| TSDSI Secretariat | ||||
| 1 | Mr AK Mittal | Member-Secretary | Director General | Telecommunications Standards Development Society, India |
Please click the buttons below to access the Past Governing Council Member list.
TSDSI’s 6th Governing Council TSDSI’s 5th Governing Council
TSDSI’s 4th Governing Council TSDSI’s 3rd Governing Council TSDSI’s 2nd Governing Council TSDSI’s Ist Governing Council