Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission - What Kind of Autonomy?

Abstract: This happened some twenty-two years back. My term as a member of the Drugs Technical Advisory Board was coming to an end. The thirty-eighth meeting of the DTAB was in session on 24 December 1982. This was my last meeting of the Board. Dr I. D. Bajaj, Director General of Health Services, was in the chair. After the scheduled business had been transacted, I made a request to the chair for permission to raise the issue of establishing an independent Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission. I was fairly conversant with the subject, as for several years I had been associated with the move favouring creation of the Commission. I had chaired an ad hoc committee of the Pharmacy Council of India (1978), which prepared the respective case, at the behest of the Ministry of Health & Family Welfare, Government of India. I had spoken on the subject at various professional platforms. On the DTAB chairman allowing me to do so, I made a presentation. My suggestion was well received and supported by other members of the Board. The proposal was agreed to in principle. I was asked to prepare a working paper for consideration by the Board and making a recommendation to the Government of India thereafter. A formal letter from the Drugs Controller (India) for preparing the working paper arrived in March 1983.

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