The Republic of India signed the FAIR convention on 4 October 2010 in Wiesbaden, Germany. India holds 3,5 percent of the current FAIR GmbH shares.

Indian Researchers, under the guidance of the Department of Science and Technology (DST) and the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), Government of India, have been working since 2005 in identifying the areas of participation both in experiments and accelerator components. The participation in experiments is guided mostly by the extensions of the similar ongoing programmes where Indian researchers are engaged over the decades both inside the country and abroad.

Indian scientists will be engaged in building detectors for the major experimental programmes of FAIR, i.e. NUSTAR (Nuclear Structure, Astrophysics and Reactions), CBM (Compressed Baryonic Matter) and PANDA (Antiproton Anihilation at Darmstadt). Another area of major participation is building equipment to be used at the heart of the FAIR accelerator.

Sibaji Raha, Bose Institute, Kolkata
- Delegate to FAIR Council
- Chair of Joint Scientific Council (FAIR and GSI)

Bikash Sinha, Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC)
- Delegate to FAIR Council

Sanjeev Kumar Varshney, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- Delegate to Administrative and Finance Committee (AFC)

Subhasis Chattopadhyay, Variable Energy Cyclotron Center (VECC)
- Delegate to Administrative and Finance Committee (AFC)
- Programme-Director, Indo-FAIR Co-ordination Centre (IFCC) at Bose-Institute, the centre co-ordinating FAIR related activities in India

Rakesh Bhandari, Inter University Accelerator Centre (IUAC), New Delhi
- Delegate to In-kind Review Board (IKRB)
- Assistant to the IKRB Chair
- Member of Machine Advisory Committee (MAC)
- Advisor to the Indian delegation to FAIR Council

Madhusudan Reddy Nandineni, Embassy of India, Berlin
- ex officio Advisor to the Indian delegation to FAIR Council
- ex officio Advisor to the Indian delegation to AFC

Sanjay Kumar Ghosh, Bose Institute, Kolkata
- Advisor to the Indian delegation to AFC

Gaurav Aggarwal, Department of Science and Technology, Government of India
- Advisor to the Indian delegation to AFC