Union Minister of Health and Family Welfare and Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh Mandaviya on Sunday inaugurated a two day Chintan Shivir on Drugs: Quality Regulations and Enforcement. 

In his inaugural address, Mandaviya underlined the focus of the deliberative forum, “The Chintan Shivir is a platform for all the stakeholders in the pharma and health sectors to deliberate on pathways for cohesive and synergistic approaches for building robust and resilient regulatory systems."

The Minister stated that various agencies across the Centre and states, public-private divide form important components of ensuring that pharmaceuticals manufactured in the country and consumed by domestic and international consumers are of the highest quality and adhere to standard global manufacturing protocols. This will ensure that India’s fame as “Pharmacy of the World” is upheld and we provide pharma products of the highest quality to the consumers.

The Union Health Minister highlighted that “it is of critical importance to ensure that the regulatory mechanisms of the country are of impeccable standards which are sustained over time and space. This is possible when the Central Ministries and state bodies work in a spirit of cooperative federalism, building on the strengths of one another and working jointly to remove loopsholes in the regulatory systems."

He encouraged the participants to share their knowledge and insights from their field level experience to enrich the discussions over the two days of collaborative brainstorming.  “The challenges we face can be collaboratively addressed by pooling of our collective experience. The manthan at the end of these two days will provide rich knowledge to build strong, sturdy, resilient and people- friendly mechanisms”, he stated.

“How can we ensure that the confidence of the consumers of pharmaceuticals manufactured in India is upheld? I urge all the stakeholders to steadfastly work towards making the Indian drugs regulatory system among the best in the world, which could be emulated by other countries”, he exhorted the participants.