Question : DELICENCING OF DRUGS

(a) whether the Government has decided to delicence more drugs, and

(b) if so, the details thereof? ANSWE

THE MINISTER OF CHEMICALS AND FERTILIZERS AND MINISTER OF STEEL (SHRI RAM VILAS PASWAN):

(a) and (b) As per Pharmaceutical policy 2002, industrial licensing for all bulk drugs cleared by Drug Controller General (India), all their intermediates and formulations has been abolished, subject to stipulations laid down from time to time in the industrial Policy, except in the cases of the following:

(i) bulk drugs produced by the use of recombinant DNA technology,

(ii) bulk drugs requiring in-vivo use of nucleic acids as the active principles, and

(iii) specific cell/tissue targeted formulations.