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INDIAN PLUMBING ASSOCIATION - AN OVERVIEW

IPA is the apex body, representing the entire plumbing fraternity in India. It has Plumbing Consultants, Contractors, Architects, Bureaucrats, Planners, Builders, Manufactures, Traders and in fact, anybody and everybody connected with plumbing as its members, all under one roof called - IPA.

IPA is an active member of the global body of plumbing professionals -

In fact, IPA President Mr. Sudhakaran Nair is the FIRST Indian to be elected as Executive Board Member of World Plumbing Council

IPA has 11 chapters and over 1300 members, spread across the country.

INDIAN PLUMBING ASSOCIATION - AIMS & OBJECTIVES

to advance the cause of good plumbing to provide a platform for dissemination of ideas relating to plumbing to gather the entire plumbing fraternity under one umbrella to encourage members to adopt high standards of workmanship and observe ethical business practices to provide an interface between industry / government / statutory bodies to organize seminars/conferences /exhibitions

STRATEGY FOR ACHIEVEING THE OBJECTIVES OF IPA

Strengthening IPA’s base through establishment of more chapters across India and thereby, increasing its membership base. SPREAD

Publication of Uniform Plumbing Code - India under a collaborative arrangement with IAPMO – India CODES

Launch of a nation-wide Plumbing Education to Employment Programme (PEEP) as a joint initiative with IAPMO – India. EDUCATION

MoU Signed between CPWD, IAPMO and IPA. Seen in the picture from L to R are Mr. M K Gupta, Mr. R S Prasad, Mr. Subhash Deshpande, Mr. D S Sachdev, Mr. Sudhakaran Nair and Mr. C S Gupta

Signing of the MoU : Seen in the picture from (L to R) are Mr. B Pattabhiraman, President - IWS; Mr. D Lakshminarayanaswamy, Trustee - SNR Sons Charitable Trust; Mr. N Jayabal, Hon. Secretary - IPACbC; Mr. Subhash Despande, Director of Plumbing Education and Certification - IAPMO India; Mr. K G Muralidharan, President - BHELSIA and Mr. G Shrinivasan, Chairman - BAI Coimbatore Centre

(L to R) Mr. Gurmit Singh, Chairman - IPA Mumbai Chapter, Mr. Cyrus Pithawalla, Director - HCPL, Mr. Subhash Deshpande, Director - IAPMO-I and Iqbal Ahmad, GM Projects, HCPL congratulating on signing MoU.

Mr. Subhash Deshpande and Dr. Anil Sahasrabudhe signing the MoU between IAPMO-I, IPA, IIP and CoEP

Publication of GREEN PLUMBING CODE SUPPLEMENT - INDIA under a collaborative arrangement with IAPMO – India

GPI Trainers Receiving Certificate by Mr. Sudhakaran Nair & Mr. Allen Inlow

Publication of India’s ONLY magazine totally devoted to plumbing Indian Plumbing Today as a collaborative arrangement with AIM. PUBLICATION

Publication of India’s ONLY organized database of plumbing professionals and manufacturers Plumbing Directory of India as a collaborative arrangement with AIM. PUBLICATION

Launch of Plumbing Directory of India 2010 (PDI 2010 at worthy hands of Mr. Sudhakaran Nair, President – Indian Plumbing Association (IPA) & Mr. Kamal Khokhani, Managing Director – AIM Expositions Pvt Ltd (AIMEX)

IPA has so far, organized 13 national conferences at various destinations in India CONFERENCES

IPA has already announced the 14th Indian Plumbing Conference at

The City of Joy Kolkata

Through the national conferences, IPA has tried to focus on some of the critical subjects for deliberations like - Health Aspects of Plumbing Problems in Plumbing Installations Plumbing Scenario in India with special focus on new materials, Education and Training Plumbing for the future with special focus on Water Management Pre-requisites of good plumbing Emerging opportunities for plumbing services in Hospitality, Hospital and Infrastructure Sectors Technological advances in plumbing Challenges in up gradation of urban and rural sanitation Plumbing Services for Built Environment Plumbing in Contemporary Constructions Uniform Plumbing Code for India Efficient & Safe Plumbing Installation

IPA’s chapters also organize seminars at local level SEMINARS

IPA BANGALORE CHAPTER

IPA MUMBAI CHAPTER

IPA DELHI CHAPTER

IPA GUJARAT CHAPTER

IPA HYDERABAD CHAPTER

IPA COIMBATORE CHAPTER

IPA KERALA CHAPTER

IPA KOLKATA CHAPTER

IPA and AIMEX organize India’s ONLY international plumbing exhibition – EXHIBITION at Mumbai, as an annual affair.

PlumbexIndia’08 11 – 13 February 2008

PlumbexIndia’09 30 January – 01 February 2009

PlumbexIndia’10 05 – 07 February 2010

Indian Plumbing Association & AIM Expositions Pvt. Ltd. are now all set to organize

Indian Plumbing Association has formed to create an awareness about better plumbing Indian Institute of Plumbing

Have collaborated with the college of Engineering – Pune to set-up a world-class Plumbing Laboratory &

IPA is also to organize

ENVIRONMENT p HEALTH p HYGIENE Proposed Theme for 10th World Plumbing Conference is

Benefits to India (in more than one ways…)

- Guidelines may be laid down for adopting safe plumbing practices - The plumbing fraternity can have a greater influence in guiding government policies to provide safe plumbing - Good plumbing percolates to the grass roots for benefit of the common man

IPA MANAGEMENT through a democratically elected NATIONAL EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

Chapter Chairmen Office Bearers NEC Members

This was a small presentation on the mission and vision of Indian Plumbing Association, which can be described as a one-liner.

Better Plumbing for Better Living

More information on IPA is available on www.indianplumbing.org

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