GST Policy Clarification & Representations
Technical policy analysis and evidence-led representations for systemic GST and indirect-tax issues, separate from dispute-specific litigation.
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Policy & Regulatory Advisory
Evidence-led policy analysis, technical representations and regulatory strategy for systemic issues, company-wide concerns and complex regulated businesses. A particular focus is central-government policy and its commercial implications.
Regulatory Advisory Withdrawal & Policy Correction
Structured legal and technical representations where an advisory, notification or administrative position creates material policy inconsistency.
Explore this service →Policy-Level Settlement & PSU Coordination
Advisory on documented contractual reconciliation, statutory compliance and procedural closure in public-sector matters.
Explore this service →Private University Structuring & Legislative Support
Policy, regulatory and institutional-structure advisory for substantial private-university initiatives.
Explore this service →PSU Healthcare & Aggregator Compliance Strategy
Regulatory and data-governance advisory for healthcare aggregators and technology platforms working with public-sector institutions.
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GST Council & Fiscal Policy Advisory
Connect statutory interpretation, business-model evidence, policy representations and Union–State engagement around a carefully defined decision request.
Explore the policy practice →Specialist capability
Industrial Policy, Ports & Trade Regulatory Advisory
Evidence-led representations, specialist analysis and coordinated institutional engagement for companies and industry bodies facing systemic regulatory obstacles.
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Pharmaceutical & Healthcare Regulatory Affairs
Connect licensing, inspection readiness and national operational compliance with the relevant TLGS expertise.
Explore the healthcare regulatory practice →Major mandate · GST Council policy matters
Policy clarity for India’s
digital mobility economy.
A major TLGS policy mandate addressing the GST treatment of electronic commerce operators in passenger mobility: statutory research, a conduct-based clarification proposal, fiscal safeguards and coordinated Union–State policy engagement.
Ongoing policy engagement — clarification soughtOur work · Industrial policy & regulatory alignment
SBL & EMWA.
A port issue with national
industrial consequences.
A completed TLGS mandate for Special Blasts Limited and SBL Energy Limited, representing affected EMWA members on an ammonium nitrate port-handling issue with consequences for mining, power, steel, cement and infrastructure supply chains.
TLGS scope completedOur work · Long-standing institutional engagement
Supporting Tata 1mg.
Across formats. Across India.
TLGS is a long-standing pan-India regulatory advisory and operational-compliance partner to Tata 1mg, supporting defined assignments across retail pharmacy, e-pharmacy, institutional healthcare and e-diagnostics.
Tata 1mgLong-standing institutional client of TLGS
Retail pharmacyE-pharmacyInstitutional healthcareE-diagnostics
Pan-India coordination · State-specific execution · Documented reporting
TLGS expertise
Relevant TLGS expertise
Air Marshal Naresh Verma, AVSM, VSM (Retd.)
Former Director General (Administration), Indian Air Force; former Member, Armed Forces Tribunal
Director & Executive President
Policy, Regulatory, Legal, Strategic Affairs & Institutional Relations
Decorated Indian Air Force leader with experience across defence administration, military justice, aviation and institutional governance.
View profileShri Parag Gupta, IAS (Retd.)
Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha; former Adviser, NITI Aayog
Distinguished Policy Principal
Public Policy, Infrastructure, Institutional Governance & Regulatory Strategy
Former Additional Chief Secretary, Government of Odisha, and former Adviser, NITI Aayog, with a public-policy and infrastructure background.
View profileShri Navneet Goel, IRS (C&IT) (Retd.)
Former Principal Chief Commissioner, Customs & CGSTIRS (C&IT), 1989 batch · Former Technical Member, National Anti-Profiteering Authority
Principal GST Technical Advisor
GST, Indirect Tax & Fiscal Policy
Former Principal Chief Commissioner, Customs & CGST; IRS (C&IT), 1989 batch. His experience spans tax administration, GST intelligence, anti-profiteering and capacity building.
View profileShri V. P. Agrawal
Former Chairman & Managing Director, Airports Authority of India
Practice Chair
Aviation Infrastructure, Public Procurement, EPC, PPP & Public Sector Strategy
Former Chairman & Managing Director of Airports Authority of India, with experience in airport development, aviation policy and public-private partnerships.
View profileShri P. Udayakumar
Former CMD, NSIC & NSIC Venture Capital Fund
Regional President — Chennai / South India
Chair, South India Enterprise Desk
Former CMD and board-level leader of NSIC and NSIC Venture Capital Fund, bringing MSME, enterprise-development and growth-finance experience.
View profileMs. Somya Satsangi
Former Senior Director, Tata Consultancy ServicesIndependent-director and Risk Management Committee chair experience, Dr Lal PathLabs
Director & Practice Chair
Corporate Governance, Risk, Digital Strategy & Board Advisory
Board and strategy professional with experience in corporate governance, risk oversight, technology commercialisation and healthcare.
View profileCapt. G. S. Rathee
Adviser & Member of the Board, BCKICBhubaneswar City Knowledge Innovation Cluster Foundation · S&T Clusters initiative, Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser to the Government of India
Policy Principal
Governance, Public Policy & Strategic Initiatives
Governance, aviation and institutional-strategy professional with experience in autonomous councils, public policy and innovation ecosystems.
View profileDr. Karan Garg
Former Judge
Director & Group Principal
Collaborations & Strategic Growth
Former Judge with multidisciplinary experience across international trade, infrastructure and EPC, public procurement, regulatory strategy and enterprise growth. Leads TLGS’s collaborations and strategic-growth remit.
View profileShri Rajesh P. Chaudhari
Former Assistant Commissioner, Food and Drugs Administration, Maharashtra State
Regional Principal Advisor
Pharmaceutical Regulatory Affairs, Licensing & Compliance (Maharashtra)
Former Assistant Commissioner, FDA Maharashtra, with more than three decades of experience in pharmaceutical regulation, licensing, inspections, quality systems and regulatory administration.
View profileCA Vinod Godara
Practice Principal
Tax, Finance, Regulatory & Strategic Advisory
New Delhi-based Chartered Accountant and Practice Principal, connecting tax and financial review with regulatory analysis, policy coordination and practical support for client mandates.
View profileCS Sonal Jain
Board Affairs & Strategic Communication Lead
MD Office
Company Secretary with experience in corporate law, board affairs, FEMA, secretarial compliance and strategic communication.
View profileShri Amogh Bansal
Regional Lead
UAE & Middle East Business Operations
Consulting and business-analysis professional with experience in healthcare initiatives, MSME policy, technology and cross-border coordination.
View profileBharat Pulse · TLGS policy perspective
Section 9(5): digital facilitation or economic intermediation?
Why the proposed assessment focuses on actual platform functions, not a business label—and why passenger mobility must be analysed on its own facts.
Published 13 September 2026 · Explains an ongoing TLGS proposal. Not a notification, tax exemption or report of government acceptance.
Bharat Pulse · Industrial policy
When a port circular becomes an industry-wide policy issue.
Lessons from TLGS’s SBL / EMWA engagement: connect the statutory question, specialist evidence, supply-chain consequences and the administrative decision sought.
Published 13 September 2026 · Historical case-based analysis, not a new government announcement or cargo-handling guidance.
Bharat Pulse · Healthcare regulatory insights
Public sources. Practical implications.
Dated regulatory notes with official references and a separately identified TLGS perspective.
Hospital-linked pharmacies: patient choice belongs in the compliance workflow
A Maharashtra FDA order brings prescription access and patient choice into the operating controls of hospital-linked pharmacy services.
Official order · reviewed 13 September 2026
Read the sourced insight →Maharashtra licensing: verify the application channel before a multi-location rollout
Current Maharashtra FDA portal guidance makes application-channel verification an important first step for new manufacturing and sales users.
Official portal guidance · reviewed 13 September 2026
Read the sourced insight →From drug-quality alerts to batch-level action across a pharmacy network
A central-government reply explains the public drug-alert process. For retail and e-pharmacy networks, the operating question is how an alert becomes a traceable, location-specific response.
Official parliamentary reply · reviewed 13 September 2026
Read the sourced insight →These are independent TLGS sector notes, not Tata 1mg statements or findings about a client. Review dates are not announcement dates.
The scope of each engagement is agreed after review of the facts, documents, applicable framework and conflicts. Services are advisory and coordination-led; court appearances, reserved professional work and technical certifications are undertaken through appropriately authorised professionals. No court, regulatory, funding or commercial outcome is guaranteed.
This capability in practice
Selected TLGS work.
Renewable fuels: financing compliance & drawdown readiness
Coordinating legal, financial and technical responses for a grain-based ethanol project, with particular attention to lender conditions, collateral documentation and the requirements for a further drawdown.
Lender-response execution & compliance coordinationChallenge, solution & delivery →Payment services: authorisation & appellate strategy
Regulatory-defence and appeal preparation for a payment-services enterprise, connecting authorisation requirements, audited financial evidence, systems assurance and procedural fairness.
Regulatory evidence & statutory appeal preparationChallenge, solution & delivery →Digital health: institutional market access & growth architecture
Strategic advisory connecting a digital-health enterprise’s consumer, corporate and institutional channels with partnership design, governance and regulatory positioning.
Market-development & institutional structuringChallenge, solution & delivery →