“Telangana is the youngest state in the country but we are the biggest player in pharmaceutical. Our state manufactures almost 40 per cent of the medicines made in India and also export 58 per cent of the medicines. We also regulate quality and prices of medicines and functioning of blood banks. We leveraged technology to try and cut down the trouble the government sometime gives to the hospitals and industry at large. We have grown from the undivided state of Andhra Pradesh. Telengana has inherited almost 85 per cent of manufacturing capacity with 490 manufacturing units and about 27,000 pharmacists which are functioning. We are one of the few drug regulators in the country which has put everything online like licencing procedures, parameters, flow charts etc. Now nobody needs to turn up at my office to get these things done as everything can be done online.”
