The Consortium operates through its Headquarter set-up at the INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar and Ministry of Education provides funds required for subscription to electronic resources for Universities, Colleges and Centrally Funded Technical Institutions in India.
The Ministry of Education (formerly MHRD) has constituted the National Advisory Committee for e-Shodh Sindhu to advise and guide the Consortium on rates negotiated by it as well as on collaborative services between MoE-funded institutions. The e-Shodh Sindhu is being operated by the INFLIBNET Centre, Gandhinagar under the overall guidance of a National Steering Committee that guides and steers the activities of the Consortium. The National Steering Committee is responsible for operational aspects of the Consortium. The Committee decides on e-resources to be subscribed from various publishers for numbers beneficiary institutions. The Negotiation Committee is responsible for negotiating the rates of subscriptions of e-resources under Consortium.
| Sl. No. | Members of the Committee | Name of the Member |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Secretary (HE), MoE (Ex-Officio) | Mr K Sanjay Murthy |
| 2 | Additional Secretary (TE), MoE & Mission Director, NMEICT (Ex-Officio) | -- |
| 3 | Joint Secretary (HE), MoE (Ex-Officio) | Ms Rina Sonowal Kouli |
| 4 | Additional Secretary (TEL), MoE (Ex-Officio) | -- |
| 5 | JS & FA, MoE (Ex-Officio) | Mr Sanjog Kapoor |
| 6 | Chairman, UGC (Ex-Officio) | Prof M Jagadesh Kumar |
| 7 | Chairman, AICTE (Ex-Officio) | Prof T G Sitharam |
| 8 | Adviser, (Higher Education) NITI Aayog, New Delhi (Ex-Officio) | -- |
| 9 | Librarian, IIT Delhi (Ex-Officio) | Dr Nabi Hasan |
| 10 | Domain Expert | Prof Asoke Kumar Sen, Dean, Science, Assam University |
| 11 | Domain Expert | Prof Pratosh Bansal, Professor of IT, Institute of Engineering and Technology, Devi Ahilya Vishwavidyalaya, Indore |
| 12 | Domain Expert | Dr T S Kumbar, Advisor, IIT Gandhinagar |
| 13 | Domain Expert | Dr Arun Kumar Sharma, University Librarian, Guru Ghasidas University, Bilaspur |
| 14 | Director, IIT Delhi (Ex-Officio) | Prof Rangan Banerjee |
| 15 | Director, IISER, Mohali (Ex-Officio) | Prof J Gowrishankar |
| 16 | Director, IIT Bombay (Ex-Officio) | Prof Subhasis Chaudhuri |
| 17 | Vice Chancellor, University of Hyderabad (Ex-Officio) | Prof Basuthkar Jagadeeshwar Rao |
| 18 | Vice Chancellor, Pt. Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur (Ex-Officio) | Prof Keshari Lal Verma |
| 19 | President, Manipal University, Jaipur (Ex-Officio) | Dr G K Prabhu |
| 20 | NAC Nominated Member | Dr Partha Pratim Chakrabarti, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
| 21 | NAC Nominated Member | Prof P P Das, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur |
| 22 | Joint Secretary (SE-I), Department of SEL, MoE | Ms Archana Sharma Awasthi |
| 23 | NAC Nominated Member | Prof Huzar Saran, Dept of Computer Science and Engineering, IIT Delhi |
| 24 | Director, INFLIBNET Centre (Convener) | Prof Devika P Madalli |
| Sl. No. | Members of the Committee | Name of the Member |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chairman | Prof Virendra Kumar Tewari, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur |
| 2 | Vice Chancellor, North Eastern Hill University | Prof Prabha Shankar Shukla |
| 3 | Vice Chancellor, University of Mumbai | Prof Ravindra Kulkarni |
| 4 | Vice Chancellor, VIT University | Dr Rambabu Kodali |
| 5 | Vice Chancellor, IGNOU | Prof Nageshwar Rao |
| 6 | Vice Chancellor, NLS Bengaluru | Prof Sudhir Krishnaswamy |
| 7 | Director, IIT Madras | Prof V Kamakoti |
| 8 | Director, NIT Surathkal | Prof B Ravi |
| 9 | Director, IISER Pune | Prof Sunil S Bhagwat |
| 10 | Director, IIM Kolkata | Prof Sahadeb Sarkar (Director In-charge) |
| 11 | Director, IISc Bengaluru | Prof Govindan Rangarajan |
| 12 | Director, IIIT Kancheepuram | Prof M V Kartikeyan |
| 13 | Director, IIT Guwahati | Prof Rajeev Ahuja, Officiating Director |
| 14 | One Domain expert | Prof Ajit Kembhavi, Emeritus Professor, IUCAA, Pune |
| 15 | Librarian, IIT Delhi (Ex-Officio) | Dr Nabi Hasan |
| 16 | Coordinator (CeRA) (Ex-Officio) | Dr Bimlesh Mann, Asstt. Director General (EP & HS), ICAR |
| 17 | Coordinator, NKRC (CSIR and DST) (Ex-Officio) | Mr Mukesh A Pund |
| 18 | Coordinator, DelCON (DBT) (Ex-Officio) | Dr D D Lal |
| 19 | Coordinator, DRDO Consortium (DRDO) (Ex-Officio) | Sh Sudhanshu Bhusan, Scientist-F & Coordinator |
| 20 | Coordinator, MoES Consortium (Ex-Officio) | -- |
| 21 | Dy. Secretary, TEL (MoE) | -- |
| 22 | Joint Secretary (IUC), UGC (Ex-Officio) | Dr Jitendra Kumar Tripathi |
| 23 | Additional Secretary (TE), MoE (Ex-Officio) | -- |
| 24 | Director, INFLIBNET Centre (Convener) | Prof Devika P Madalli |
| Sl. No. | Members of the Committee | Name of the Member |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chairman | Prof Virander Singh Chauhan, Arturo Falaschi Emeritus Scientist, International Centre for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, New Delhi |
| 2 | Nominee, NSC | Prof Govindan Rangarajan, Director, Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru |
| 3 | Nominee, NSC | Prof V Kamakoti, Director, Indian Institute of Technology Madras |
| 4 | Nominee, INFLIBNET GB | Prof J B Nadda, Director, Consortium for Educational Communication (CEC), New Delhi |
| 5 | Nominee, INFLIBNET GB | Prof K P Singh, Dept of Library & Information Sciences, University of Delhi, Delhi |
| 6 | One member from Integrated Finance, Division of MoE | To be nominated by JS & FA, MoE |
| 7 | One member from TEL Bureau | To be nominated by AS(TE), MoE |
| 8 | Senior Scientist, In-charge of e-Shodh Sindhu, INFLIBNET Centre (Ex-Officio) | Mr Ashok Kumar Rai, Scientist-F (CS) |
| 9 | Coordinator (CeRA) (Ex-Officio) | Dr Bimlesh Mann, Asstt. Director General (EP & HS), ICAR |
| 10 | Coordinator, NKRC (CSIR and DST) (Ex-Officio) | Mr Mukesh A Pund |
| 11 | Coordinator, DelCON (DBT) (Ex-Officio) | Dr D D Lal |
| 12 | Coordinator, DRDO Consortium (DRDO) (Ex-Officio) | Sh Sudhanshu Bhusan, Scientist-F & Coordinator |
| 13 | Coordinator, ERMED Consortium (Ex-Officio) | Prof B Srinivas, Director, National Medical Library, New Delhi |
| 14 | Member from New IIT | Dr Dinesh Siddaiah, Librarian, IIT Ropar |
| 15 | Member from IIM | Dr M K Singh, Librarian, IIM Lucknow |
| 16 | Member from NIT | Dr Mallikarjun Angadi, Librarian, NIT Surathkal |
| 17 | Member from IISER | Dr P Visakhi, Librarian, IISER, Mohali |
| 18 | Member from Central University | Dr D K Singh, Librarian, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi |
| 19 | Member from State University | Dr Suparna Sengupta, Librarian, Pt Ravishankar Shukla University, Raipur, Chhattisgarh |
| 20 | Director, INFLIBNET Centre (Convener) | Prof Devika P Madalli |
The National Steering Committee of e-Shodh Sindhu has constituted two committees (one for CFTIs and other for University and Colleges)to consider the requests for new e-resources from members as well as evaluatation the existing e-resources under e-ShodhSindhu and recommend for renewal/subscriptions to NSC. The Members of the committees are given below:
| Sl. No. | Members of the Committee |
|---|---|
| 1 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IISc Bengaluru (Chairman) |
| 2 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIT Delhi |
| 3 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIT Kharagpur |
| 4 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIT Gwahati |
| 5 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIT Gandhiangar |
| 6 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIT Bhubaneshwar |
| 7 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIM Ahmedabad |
| 8 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IIM Raipur |
| 9 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, IISER Bhopal |
| 10 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, NIT Kurukshetra |
| 11 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, NIT Calicut |
| 12 | One Nominee, Chairman, NSC e-Shodh Sindhu |
| 13 | Director, INFLIBNET Centre (Convener) |
| Sl. No. | Members of the Committee |
|---|---|
| 1 | Vice-Chancellor, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Delhi (Chairman) |
| 2 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, Delhi University, Delhi |
| 3 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, Pondicherry University, Puducherry |
| 4 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, University of Mumbai, Mumbai |
| 5 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, University of Calcutta, Kolkata |
| 6 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, National Law University, New Delhi |
| 7 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, Assam University, Silchar, Assam |
| 8 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, University of Rajasthan, Jaipur |
| 9 | Professor-in-Charge/Librarian, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai |
| 10 | One Nominee, Chairman, NSC e-Shodh Sindhu |
| 11 | Director, INFLIBNET Centre (Convener) |