The Forum is a Section 8 non-profit company, registered under the Companies Act, 2013, CIN U85499MH2026NPL470552. It is not a regulator, and its authority extends no further than the quality of its work.
The Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 is short by the standard of data protection statutes. Much of what organisations must actually do is left to rules, to interpretation, and to professional judgment that does not yet exist at scale in India.
The Forum develops standards and frameworks for that gap, publishes interpretation guidance, enables professional participation, offers competency-based certification frameworks, and publishes observatory research. All of it in public, all of it free to read.
It does none of this for any government body, and none of it for any vendor.
Authority flows left to right; accountability flows back. The composition of each tier is published on Governance .
Every framework goes through the same four steps.
Arasan Anbazhagan and Capt. S V Ramsunder (Retd) serve as directors. Parveen Goribidnur and Anbazhagan Anand serve as strategic advisers. Each remaining seat is listed with the mandate it carries.
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