Export Promotion Councils

The EPC (Export Promotion Councils) in India are non-profit organizations, registered under the
Indian Companies Act or the Societies Registration Act. These Councils are also the registering
authorities under the Export Import Policy,1997-2002. These councils are supported by financial
assistance from the Government of India. The Export Promotion Councils perform both advisory
Their primary roles is to project India's image abroad as a reliable supplier of high quality goods
and services. EPCs encourage and monitor the observance of international standards and
specifications by exporters. The EPCs keep abreast of the trends and opportunities in international
markets for goods and services and assist their members in taking advantage of such
opportunities in order to expand and diversify exports and executive functions.
The chief functions of these councils are:
To organize participation in trade fairs, exhibitions and buyer-seller meets in India and abroad
To provide commercially useful information and assistance to their members in developing
and increasing their exports
To offer professional advice to their members in areas such as technology upgradation, quality
and design improvement, standards and specifications, product development and innovation
etc.
To organize visits of delegations of its members abroad to explore overseas market
opportunities.
To promote interaction between the exporting community and the Government both at the
Central and State levels
To build a statistical base and provide data on the exports and imports of the country, exports
and imports of their members, as well as other relevant international trade data
Registration of exporters and issue of Registration-cum-Membership certificate (RCMC) under
the EXIM Policy
Collection and dissemination of information primarily on export opportunities, through various
media including newsletters, bulletins, letters, telex, fax, etc.
Fixation of floor price or minimum export price or recommendation thereof to the government.

The EPCs come under the purview of one of the following:
1) Commerce Industry
2) Textile Industry
3) Commodity Boards
4) Autonomous Bodies

Each council is responsible for the promotion of a particular group of products, projects and
services. Under the commerce Industry the following EPCs are functional.

1. Engineering Export Promotion Council
2. Project Exports Promotion Council of India
3. Basic Chemicals, Pharmaceuticals and Cosmetics Export Promotion Council
4. Chemicals and Allied Products Export Promotion Council
5. Council for Leather Exports Promotion
6. Sports Goods Export Promotion Council
7. Gem and J ewellery Export Promotion Council
8. Shellac Export Promotion Council
9. Cashew Export Promotion Council
10. Plastics Export Promotion Council
11. Export Promotion Council for EOUs, SEZ Units
12. Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council

Brief Profile: Engineering Export Promotion Council (EEPC)
Way back in 1955-56, the nascent Indian engineering sector was in the process of diversifying and
restructuring the narrow export base of the industry and it needed a strong push - the EEPC
INDIA (Formerly Engineering Export Promotion Council) was set up in 1955 under the sponsorship
of Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India, for export promotion of engineering goods,
projects and services from India. Initially started with a few hundreds of engineering units as a
small outfit, with a passage of time it has grown to be the largest Export Promotion Council having
membership of nearly 12,000 from amongst large Corporate Houses, Star Trading Houses, Small
& Medium Scale Units (SME), Trading Houses, etc. Out of the total membership of the Council,
60% constitutes the SMEs.
The steady growth in the export of engineering goods from India has been the continuous
innovation and setting up quality standards in manufacturing and in delivering services this is
evident as a large number of exporters are ISO 9000 or equivalent accredited. EEPC India right
from its inception has been insisting the exporting community on the quality parameter and the
Council itself has the distinction of achieving the ISO 9002 accreditation from world renowned
KPMG. This has further been upgraded to ISO 9001:2008 for designing and execution of exhibtion
management services and provision of specialised management, educational, consulting and
public relation services to engineering industry.
Engineering exports from India has been steadily growing and the performance has probably
exceeded all expectations ever since the birth of the Council. Apart from being one of the largest
stakeholders in the total exports out of India, the engineering exporters are the foremost net
foreign exchange earner in the country. As the engineering sector is extremely diversified, the
Council has set up different Product Panels with a view to ensure that all possible & potential
Indian products reach out to the global markets.
EEPC India aggressively peruses a number of activities & services for its exporting community, its
members & the potential overseas buyers with a two-point objective of facilitating exports of
Indian engineering products & services to the global market and to provide the overseas buyers
true value.
Current Chairman: Anupam Shah
He has been, in the past, Panel Convenor - Railway Rolling Stock and Components, Signalling
Equipments and Other Transport Equipments including Air-Crafts, Ship Building and Repairing etc.
Director , Nipha Exports (P) Ltd. , 48, Ganga J amuna , 28/1, Shakespeare Sarani,
Kolkata-700017,
Phone (O) : (91 33) 22872511, 22874447,
Mobile : 09831100952, Fax : (91 33) 22875104, 22870780,
Email : nipha@niphaindia.com, anupam@niphaindia.com
Committee of Administration 2013-2015
Chairman
Anupam Shah
Sr. Vice Chairman
Tarvinder Singh Bhasin
Vice Chairman
R. P. Sehgal
Regional Chairman (SR)
Mahesh K. Desai
Regional Chairman (ER)
Arun Kumar Garodia
Regional Chairperson (NR)
Ms. Kamna Raj Aggarwalla
Regional Chairman (WR)
Pankaj Chadha
Member
J aspal Singh Bhasin
Member
P. K. Shah
Member
S. S. Kejriwal
Member
K. R. Pandian
Member
C. S. Shukla
Member (Govt. Nominee)
Ravi Capoor
Alternate of Govt. Nominee
Ramakrishnan N
Special Invitee
Rakesh Shah
Special Invitee
Aman Chadha

Working Committee 2013-2014
Anupam Shah Chairman
Tarvinder Singh Bhasin Sr. Vice Chairman
R. P. Sehgal Vice Chairman
Arun Kumar Garodia Regional Chairman (ER)
Mahesh K. Desai Regional Chairman (SR)
Ms. Kamna Raj Aggarwalla Regional Chairperson (NR)
Pankaj Chadha Regional Chairman (WR)
Aman Chadha Member
Amrutlal B. Bhimani Member
Anoop Marwaha Member
Avinash Gupta Member
B. D. Agarwal Member
C. D. Shah Member
C. S. Shukla Member
Chandubhai C. Udeshi Member
Hitendra B. Bhalaria Member
J aspal Singh Bhasin Member
K. R. Pandian Member
K. Srikanth Member
Khalid Khan Member
Krishnanlal Dhingra Member
Kuldip Singh Chadha Member
L. P. Gupta Member
M. L. Rajgarhia Member
Man Karan Bhandari Member
P. K. Shah Member
Rajesh Kumar Sonthalia Member
Rakesh Shah Member
Ramesh Kumar Mutha Member
S. S. Kejriwal Member
Sarabhjit Singh Bhasin Member
Satish Kumar Dhanda Member
Siddharth Shah Member
Sukhvinder Singh Bhasin Member
Sunil Krishna Khaitan Member
Surendra Agarwal Member
Tushar Dalmia Member
Sohil Marwaha Member
B. N. Agarwal Associate Member (Eastern Region)
Om Prakash Agarwal Associate Member (Eastern Region)
Ravi Capoor Govt. Nominee
Ramakrishnan N Alternate of Govt. Nominee
Soumen Bagchi Govt. Nominee
Najib Shah Govt Nominee
B. Sarkar Member from the Secretariat
P. K. Uppal Govt. Nominee - Top Exporter
Ramesh Maheshwari Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
Suresh M. Mehta Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
G. D. Shah Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
T. A. S. Balagopal Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
R. P. J halani Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
M. C. Shah Past Chairman EEPC INDIA
P. R. Venkatachalam Chairman, Committee on Trade with West Asia, EEPC India
Sharad Aggarwal Chairman, Committee on Drawback, Taxation including GST
Ashok Kumar Mahendru Chairman, Committee on Raw Material
Mukul Khandelwal Chairman, Committee on Trade with Australia, New Zealand
Paramdeep Lal Thakur ECGC Representative