The Charter
The founding constitution of the Alliance.
A constitutive instrument fit to place before a ministry, the RCI, WHO or the UN — built on the WHO Constitution model and the peer-federation charters of WFOT, World Physiotherapy, ICN and IALP. First Edition · Revision 1.1.
01 What the Charter establishes
Nineteen Articles that constitute the Alliance.
Built on the constitutive-instrument model the world's leading member-bodies use to found themselves.
The Charter is the Alliance's constitution. It defines who IRWFA is and what it may do; it paces the 3+3 — each membership class and each Council in its own clause; and it makes the independence keystone constitutional: a not-for-profit vehicle, an independent Patron-President, an independent-majority Board, and a conflict-of-interest firewall.
02 The nineteen Articles
- I Name, Legal Status & Seat
- II Definitions
- III Vision, Mission & Objects
- IV Functions & Powers
- V Guiding Principles
- VI Membership — Industry · Institutions · Students
- VII Organs & Governance
- VIII The Three Councils — Academic · Clinical · Research
- IX The Architecting Consortium (SAṄRACHANĀ)
- X Conduct, Ethics, Independence & Discipline
- XI Child Safeguarding & Data Protection
- XII Standards, Credentialing & the Fellowship
- XIII Equity & Access (SEVA)
- XIV Finance, Assets & Audit
- XV Relationship with the RCI & Public Authorities
- XVI Decision-Making, Quorum & Voting
- XVII Official Language & Authentic Texts
- XVIII Amendment & Dissolution
- XIX Transitional & Establishment Provisions
03 The seven Schedules
- Schedule A — The Three Membership Classes and Their Benefits
- Schedule B — The Three Councils — Mandates
- Schedule C — SAṄRACHANĀ — the 32-seat Consortium
- Schedule D — The Standards Canon
- Schedule E — The Convening Coalition
- Schedule F — The Institutional Fit & Readiness Index (IFRI)
- Schedule G — Designations and the Seal
04 The non-negotiables
Independence, safeguarding, and complementarity — made constitutional.
Three commitments are written into the instrument and cannot be amended away lightly: that IRWFA complements, and does not supplant, the Rehabilitation Council of India or any statutory regulator (Article XV); that children and their data come first, under the DPDP Act 2023 and FAIR principles (Article XI); and that the Alliance is governed as neutral, independent infrastructure with an asset-lock on dissolution (Articles X, XVIII).
The Charter is adopted with three signatures — the Patron-President (to be appointed), the Founder-Chairman of the Anchor (Dr. Koti Reddy Saripalli), and the Secretary. Read the full instrument as a PDF: IRWFA Charter — First Edition, Rev 1.1 ↗.
The Invitation
Membership is free in the establishment period — and governed by this Charter.
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