Part II - Objectives The new measures aim at : ensuring abundant availability, at reasonable prices, of essential life saving and prophylactic medicines of good quality; strengthening the system of quality control over drug production and promoting the rational use of drugs in the country; creating an environment conducive to channelising new investment into the pharmaceutical industry, to encouraging cost-effective production with economic sizes and to introducing new technologies and new drugs, and strengthening the indigenous capability for production of drugs.

• Introductory • Part II - Objectives • Part III - Rational use of Drugs • Part IV - Quality Control • Part V - Pricing • Part VI - Licensing • Part VII - Duty Rationalisation • Part VIII - Co-ordination • Part IX - Review • Annexure - I • Annexure - II • Annexure - III