The Department of Pharmaceuticals was created on the 1st of July in the year 2008 in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers so as to provide greater focus for the growth of the high potential Pharmaceuticals industry. Users can get information of the department, functions, business, agencies, schemes, essential medicines, environment cell and industry activities. Details of the Environment cell are also given for the users.

Scheme on Target specific New Drug Discovery for Anti Tubercular Agents aims at discovering high affinity ligands that can be developed into efficacious and less toxic drugs against TB. Among other things, this proposal use technique of post genomic era in identifying the role of specific gene in causing and counteracting diseases. Phase I of the project has duration of 3 years and Phase II of 2 years.

As per the second supplement of the Revised Guidelines issued by MSME on the Credit Linked Capital Subsidy Scheme (CLCSS) for Technology Up-gradation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises by the Ministry of MSME on 13th July, 2009 the pharma SSI units will now be able to avail the benefits of CLCS Scheme for financial assistance for an expanded list of products.

This scheme addresses the demand and requirement for support to already existing pharma clusters and MSMEs to improve productivity, quality and sustainability.

Production Linked Incentive (PLI) Scheme for promotion of domestic manufacturing of critical Key Starting Materials (KSMs)/ Drug Intermediates(DIs) and Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (APIs) In India.