India working on single-window portal for drug regulation processes

System will bring together stakeholders like manufacturers, distributors, state-run agencies to ensure quality

Seeking to revamp India’s drug regulatory system, the government is working on a unified digital portal that will bring together all stakeholders: regulators, manufacturers, distributors, state-run departments, and procurement agencies.

“This will integrate the existing IT (information technology) portal of the Central Drugs Standard Control Organisation (CDSCO)—the Sugam portal—all Central Drug Laboratories, state drug controllers, manufacturers etc,” said an official source.

“This platform will be a single window and single source of truth accessible to all the stakeholders,” said the source.

After controversies about India-made medicines exported to Gambia and Uzbekistan, the government has been considering how to guarantee the