The tax base of tobacco in India is found to be heavily depended on about fteen per cent of the tobacco users who represent cigarettes smokers. Non-cigarette tobacco products used by the majority of tobacco users are largely out of the tax net. Analysis of the price elasticity of various tobacco...

This study investigates the water demand of Indian manufacturing plants. It adopts an input distance function approach and approximates it by a translog form. Duality between cost function and input distance function is exploited to retrieve information concerning substitutability and the shadow...

Drug Policy of 1986

The Drug Policy, 1994 needed to be revised to  meet  the  challenges  brought  about  by  the  competitive  international  pharmaceutical  industry  in  a  globalised  economic  environment,  as...

Modifications to Drug Policy 1986

Pharmaceutical Policy of 2002 covering issues of pricing, ,marketing, size of market, quality, production, investment, regulatory authority, monitoring, ethical issues

THE DRUGS AND COSMETICS (AMENDMENT) BILL, 2005 A Bill further to amend the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940. Under examination with the Committee on Health and Family Welfare On adulterated and spurious drugs

The Task Force recommends that price regulation should be on the basis of ‘Essentiality’ of the drug and it should be applied only to formulations and not to upstream products, such as bulk drugs. No effort should be made to impose a uniform price, and only a ceiling price should be...