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.

The objective of the scheme is to enhance India's manufacturing capabilities by increasing investment and production in the sector and contributing to product diversification to high value goods in the pharmaceutical sector.

Easy access to standard testing and infrastructure facilities through creation of world class common infrastructure facilities for increased competitiveness will result into significant reduction of the cost of production of medical devices leading to better availability and affordability of medical devices in the domestic market.