• Central Coordination Committee
• Programmes/Projects
• BPNI State Chapters
• Collaborating Partners

National Secretariat: It coordinates BPNI's major programmes and maintains the flow of information among the different components of BPNI. It has a small rented office that serves mainly to network and facilitate action in support of infant and young child feeding. It is working with 5 regular staff members and 4 part-time members.

Central Coordination Committee:
A managing committee called Central Coordination Committee (CCC) manages BPNI and a National Coordinator at the national secretariat at Delhi having technical and secretarial staff coordinates all its work. The CCC is the decision making body of BPNI that takes all the policy decisions and guides actions. Its principal function is to advise BPNI, on how to achieve its goals and objectives. It appoints project coordinators in every area of action like social mobilization, monitoring the IMS Act, education and training, information, research, and policy and planning. Each of the project coordinators links with groups and individuals from among the BPNI members and from outside to carry out their tasks. Each project has five to six members from different parts of the country and from different sectors.

It consists of a Chief Coordinator, a National Coordinator, a Finance Coordinator and 5 executive members from different parts of India. This committee is elected in the General Body Meeting of BPNI for tenure of 3 years. In Dec 2005 during BPNI’s National Convention a new CCC was elected in the General Body Meeting whose members are:

Chief Coordinator : Dr Tarsem Jindal
National Coordinator: Dr Arun Gupta
Finance Coordinator: Dr Kuldip Khanna
Executive members : Dr CR Banapurmath
                                Dr Sunita Katyayan
                                Dr Satish Tiwari
                                Dr Parbati Sengupta
                                Dr Chanderkant
                                Dr Masood Ul Hassan

Programmes/Projects:
These are specialized support arms of the network. The projects are

• Skills Training
• Information and Social Mobilization
• Research
• Women and Work
• Monitoring the IMS Act
• Education Curriculum
• Infant Feeding and HIV

The National Coordinator is the key person who has the sole responsibility of implementing the decisions of CCC.

State Chapters: BPNI state chapters are committed to an open and inclusive process involving individuals and organizations that protect, promote and support breastfeeding. In the last few years BPNI has spread all over India and it has 56 district branches in different states and 12 state branches.

Each district branch has a district coordinator who is the nodal person responsible for taking all decisions I consultation with other members and to implement them in the field of advocacy, training, spreading information on different issues like IYCF, IMS Act, World Breastfeeding Week and adding new BPNI members.

Collaborating Partners: The collaborating partners, identified through a consultative process are institutions or organizations that assist in networking, information support and social mobilization activities in their area of influence. Few of these are; IAP, IMA, FOGSI, TNAI, JSA.