Pharma firms queue up for sanitiser licence

Ambika Sharma

Tribune News Service

Solan, March 17

With a surge in demand for hand sanitisers amid Covid pandemic, pharmaceutical companies in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh industrial belt are lining up before the drug licensing authority for approval to manufacture the product.

According to the drug control administration, more than 100 applications have been submitted since January and the demand has shot up, especially after mid-February.

“Record 50 applications were received yesterday and efforts are on to speed up the process of issuing licences,” said Deputy Drugs Controller Manish Kapoor. State Drugs Controller Navneet Marwaha said the officials had been directed to ensure hoarding of sanitisers and overpricing were kept in check.