Episode 1
What Is PGS-India? The Official Guiding Principles
PGS-India's own guiding principles, explained plainly — participation, shared vision, transparency, trust, and horizontality.
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Episode 2
Who Runs PGS-India: NCOF, Zonal Councils, Explained
PGS-India's real chain of command — from the Ministry down to your Local Group — and the National Centre for Organic and Natural Farming's actual current name.
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Episode 3
How to Become a PGS-India Regional Council: Eligibility
Who can be authorised as a PGS-India Regional Council — eligibility, documents, the authorisation timeline, and the 10-group target that follows it.
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Episode 4
PGS-India Local Group Rules: Size, Members, Endorsement
Rules for forming a PGS-India Local Group — the five-member minimum, the 50% land cap, one-time endorsement, meeting attendance and the solo-farmer route.
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Episode 5
PGS-India Certification Process: PGS-Green to Organic
How PGS-India certification works step by step — peer appraisal, the group decision, RC approval, PGS-Green versus PGS-Organic, and transaction certificates.
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Episode 6
Every PGS-India Deadline: RC, Local Group, Zonal Council
Every official PGS-India timeline in one place — peer appraisal windows, yield uploads, RC approval limits, inspection cycles and appeal deadlines.
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Episode 7
PGS-India Appeals: How to Challenge a Certification Decision
Who you appeal to under PGS-India, how long you have, and how long they have to answer — for farmers, Local Groups, Regional Councils and the public.
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Episode 8
PGS-India Logo Rules: PGS-Organic vs PGS-Green Explained
When a product may carry the PGS-Organic or PGS-Green logo, why the unique ID code is mandatory, and how long a PGS-India scope certificate stays valid.
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Episode 9
PGS-India Sanctions: What Happens on Non-Compliance
The PGS-India catalogue of sanctions — what a Local Group can do to a farmer, what an RC can do to a group, and what the Secretariat can do to an RC.
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