• According to New Drug CT rule_2019, minimum of 7 members are required to compose a quorum. All decisions must be taken in meetings and not by circulation of project proposals. Minutes of Meeting along with the list of members present during the meeting must be maintained.
• Chairperson
• Basic Medical Scientist
• Member Secretary
• Clinician
• Legal Expert
• Social Scientist / Representative of NGO / Ethicist / Theologian.
• Lay person from community


• A minimum of five members present in the meeting room.
• The quorum should include both medical, non-medical or technical or/and non-technical members.
• Preferably the lay person should be part of the quorum.
• The quorum for reviewing regulatory clinical trials should be in accordance with current CDSCO requirements.
• No decision is valid without fulfillment of the quorum.