Policy & Regulatory Advisory

TLGS service · E2

Regulatory Advisory Withdrawal & Policy Correction

Structured legal and technical representations where an advisory, notification or administrative position creates material policy inconsistency.

Advisory coverage

How TLGS can support you

  • Analysis of statutory authority and technical alignment
  • Industry evidence and regulatory-impact assessment
  • Administrative representations and policy-correction requests
  • Ports, safety, logistics, pharma and other technical sectors

Selected mandate · National policy

GST, digital mobility & the platform 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 sought

Selected mandate · SBL / EMWA

Resolving an industrial supply-chain bottleneck.

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 completed

Our work · Institutional client

Tata 1mg — a pan-India regulatory engagement

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.

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TLGS expertise

Relevant TLGS professionals

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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.

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Shri 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.

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Capt. 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.

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Dr. 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.

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Shri 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.

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Bharat 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.

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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.

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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.

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Maharashtra · TLGS Research

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

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Maharashtra · TLGS Research

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

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India · TLGS Research

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

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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.

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