Committees

The Strategic Advisory Group

As part of developing the knowledge about the current regulatory landscape and increasing the number of knowledgeable individuals in the industry, RRMA has created a Strategic Advisory Group consisting of professionals within the industry who can aid in said development through sharing ideas and expertise.

Members

Rupark Sarswat

Chair

Shisher Kumra

Jayachandran Nair

Mangesh barbate

Vaibhav Diwan

Pooja Vishnoi

Manisha Karale

Anupam Kaul

Nishant Agrawal

Kadambari Chude

Toru Nishida

Sunita Amin

Ramkumar Shankar

Saurabh Tripathi

Yuvraj Chopra

Sumeet Mane

Chandrima Chatterjee

Prashant Agarwal

Vijesh Kumar Sharma

Sumona Ghosh

Arun Nandi

Venkat Karri

Ashok Kumar

Meera Bakhal

Rajasekar Subramanian

Arshdeep Joshi

Hariom Sharma

Varun Pandya

Charu Jain

The Certification Scheme Committee

RRMA has decided to initiate a program for the certification and training of professionals to empower chemical professionals and to facilitate access to competent regulatory professionals for the industry and other stakeholders. This group is composed of chemicals and conformity assessment experts. The chair of this committee is Mr. Anil Jauhri, who has extensive experience in the standards, certification, accreditation and regulatory fields and had key roles and positions with the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS), the national standards body, for over 25 years, and then with Indian national accreditation body, National Accreditation Board for Certification Bodies (NABCB) for 13 plus years ending as its CEO

Members

Anil Jauhri

Chair

Debjani Roy

Program Manager

Anupam Kaul

Rajiv K. Jha

Shobha Hegde

Krishnamurthy Srinivasan

Shisher Kumra

Vaibhav Diwan

Manisha Karale

Sectoral Committee

The committee will investigate the key areas of interest to the members in the ESG area. It will also assess and update members and policy makers on existing and upcoming key issues and challenges relating to the ESG related norms, standards, and regulations. The committee can also give recommendations on how to address the challenges and issues relating to these issues and/or challenges. Additionally, the committee can define the role that RRMA could have within this thematic area.

Sustainability and carbon (ESG)

The committee will investigate the key areas of interest to the members in the ESG area. It will also assess and update members and policy makers on existing and upcoming key issues and challenges relating to the ESG related norms, standards, and regulations. The committee can also give recommendations on how to address the challenges and issues relating to these issues and/or challenges. Additionally, the committee can define the role that RRMA could have within this thematic area.

Polymer and resins

Most regulations and technical standards treat polymers and resins in a separate, special category. One of the key issues is the identification of the polymer analytically, which poses a challenge. In other countries, polymer exemption requires specific details on the method of analysis and a justification to seek exemption must be provided. Furthermore, there are growing concerns about plastic pollution, and active policy discussion on the issue of micro-plastics. The committee will be responsible for providing technical and scientific input in such issues as a stakeholder. It can define the role that RRMA could have within this thematic area and can prepare short fact sheets and/or policy briefs.