Department of Pharmaceutics (DoP)
The Department of Pharmaceuticals was created on the 1st of July in the year 2008 in the Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers so as to provide greater focus for the growth of the high potential Pharmaceuticals industry.
The department has been given the following mandate for catalysing the growth of the pharma industry in the country
- Drugs and Pharmaceuticals sector development
- Promotion and co-ordination of basic, applied and other research in areas related to the Pharmaceuticals sector.
- Development of infrastructure, manpower and skills for the Pharmaceuticals sector and management of related information.
- Education and training including high end research and grant of fellowships in India and abroad, exchange of information and technical guidance on all matters relating to pharmaceutical sector.
- Promotion of public - private - partnership in pharmaceutical related areas.
- International cooperation in pharmaceutical research, including work related to international conferences in related areas in India and abroad.
- Technical support for dealing with national hazards in pharmaceutical sector.
- All matters relating to National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority including related functions of price control/monitoring.
- All matters relating to National Institutes for Pharmacy Education and Research.
- Supporting growth of Central Pharma Public Sector Undertakings - BCPL, HAL, IDPL, KAPL and RDPL.
- Medical Devices - Industry issues relating to promotion, production and manufacture; excluding those specifically allotted to other Departments.
Department of Pharmaceutical is one of the major stakeholder of LSSSDC as LSSSDC caters skill development services to Pharmaceutical Sub Sector.
Department of Biotechnology
The Department of Biotechnology 9DBT) has been headed by several formidable scientists since its birth in 1986. The remarkable march of India into the world of biosciences and technological advances began in 1986. That year, the then Prime Minister of the country, late Rajiv Gandhi accepted the vision that unless India created a separate Department for Biotechnology, within the Ministry of Science and Technology, Government of India the country would not progress to the desired extent. This was because many of our macro-economic issues of growth were subsumed within that science’s development.
That decision has made India one of the first countries to have a separate department for this stream of science and technology.
The department has been given the following mandate for catalysing the growth of the pharma industry in the country
- Promote large scale use of Biotechnology
- Support R&D and manufacturing in Biology
- Responsibility for Autonomous Institutions
- Promote University and Industry Interaction
- Identify and Set up Centres of Excellence for R&D
- Integrated Programme for Human Resource Development
- Serve as Nodal Point for specific International Collaborations
- Establishment of Infrastructure Facilities to support R&D and production
- Evolve Bio Safety Guidelines, manufacture and application of cell based vaccines
- Serve as nodal point for the collection and dissemination of information relating to biotechnology.
Department of Biotechnology is one of the major stakeholder of LSSSDC as LSSSDC caters skill development services to Bio-Pharmaceutical Sub Sector.
Ministry of AYUSH
The Ministry of AYUSH was formed on 9th November' 2014. Earlier it was known as the Department of Indian System of Medicine and Homeopathy (ISM&H) which was created in March 1995 and renamed as Department of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy (AYUSH) in November 2003, with a view to provide focused attention for the development of Education and Research in Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homoeopathy. Objectives:
- To upgrade the educational standards of Indian Systems of Medicines and Homoeopathy colleges in the country.
- To strengthen existing research institutions and to ensure a time-bound research programme on identified diseases for which these systems have an effective treatment.
- To draw up schemes for promotion, cultivation and regeneration of medicinal plants used in these systems.
- To evolve Pharmacopoeial standards for Indian Systems of Medicine and Homoeopathy drugs.
Ministry of AYUSH is also one among the major stakeholder of LSSSDC as LSSSDC caters skill development services to Pharmaceutical Sub Sector which includes AYUSH as Industry segment.