One subject
A single draft order or policy question per session. Never a general agenda.
Round Table
Fifty people in a room, one draft regulation on the table, and a document going to Delhi at the end of it.
What it is
A comment window is short. We use it well.
When the Government publishes a draft order, it opens a comment window. Thirty days, sometimes less. In that window an industry either organises itself or it does not.
Round Table is how we organise it.
We take one piece of proposed regulation. We put the people it will affect in a room with the lawyers who can read it clause by clause. We run through the draft line by line, we record where the industry agrees and where it does not, and we file the result with the department that asked.
No stage. No keynote. No sponsors selling from the front. Everyone at the table is there because the order in question lands on their desk.
How it runs
Four rules, kept every time.
A working committee
Mill managing directors, trading house heads, association leadership and legal counsel, sitting together. Millers and traders read the same clause differently, and both readings go into the submission.
A written outcome
Every session ends with a document. The recommendations from each of the three sessions held so far have been carried forward to the Government of India as formal submissions.
A closed room
These are working sessions. Attendance is by invitation, kept small enough that everyone speaks.
ChiniMandi convenes each session and carries the record.
Sessions so far
Three sittings. Every one carried to Delhi.
Secretarial Round Table
12 June 2026 · at SEIC, MumbaiThe Department of Food and Public Distribution, the leading associations, mills and OMCs, in one closed room under the Chatham House Rule. Five connected policy questions, and recommendations carried forward to government.
Read moreSugarcane (Control) Order, 2026
May 2026Twenty-three participants from mills, cooperatives, trading houses, the two national associations and the farming community. Produced the White Paper "Policy for a Sustainable Sugar Future", submitted to the Government of India on 20 May 2026.
Read moreSugar (Control) Order, 1966 and the 2024 draft
September 2024 · Kolhapur and GoaTwo sittings, one for millers and one for traders, on the first proposed revision to the order in almost sixty years. Recommendations were submitted to the Department of Food and Public Distribution.
Read moreThe next Round Table will be called when the next draft is.
Industry bodies and companies who want to be considered for a future session can write to us.