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Task
force to strengthen Indian pharma industry
Wednesday March 16, 2011 10:59:01 AM,
IANS
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New Delhi: A
12-member task force that will evolve strategies for making India
a hub for drug discovery and research was set up under the
chairmanship of health research secretary V.M. Katoch, a health
ministry release said here Tuesday.
Health and Family Welfare Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad constituted
the task force to evolve a long-term strategy for addressing
various issues faced by the Indian pharma industry, the release
said. The task force has been asked to submit its report within
three months.
The task force, to be co-chaired by director general health
services R.K. Srivastava, will draw members from the National
Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority and Department of Industry Policy
and Promotion, apart from several industry lobbies.
The Drug Controller General of India will be the member-secretary
of the task force. The chairman of the task force has also been
given the powers to co-opt any other expert in the relevant area
as is considered necessary, the release added.
Among the terms of reference would be to evolve a short, medium
and long-term policy and strategy to make India a hub for drug
discovery, research and development.
It will also evolve strategies to further the interests of Indian
pharma industry in the light of issues related to intellectual
property rights and recommend strategies to capitalise the
opportunity of $60 to $80 billion drugs going off-patent over the
next five years.
The task force will also evolve policy measures to assure national
drugs security by promoting indigenous production of bulk drugs,
preventing takeover of Indian pharma industry by multi-national
corporations, drug pricing, promotion of generic drugs and
recommend measures to assure adequate availability of quality
generic drugs at affordable prices.
The move for setting up the task force comes in the wake of a
meeting the minister had with drug manufacturers in Mumbai and
Hyderabad, where they had requested him to constitute a task force
to prepare a long-term strategy for strengthening of the drug
sector in the country and take all aspects of the drug industry on
board, including those concerning medical devices, clinical
research organisations, and research and development labs.
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