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In a major relief to the pharmaceutical sector, India's first active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) fermentation unit, which will cater to 60 per cent of the domestic demand, has commenced production at Plassra in Nalagarh...
"Set up under the Centrally sponsored production-linked incentive (PLI) scheme, this pharmaceuticalraw material manufacturing unit, has achieved up to 6.5 per cent yield in the first few months..
Being a key API used in the production of several antibiotics, it will meet around 60 per cent demand of the domestic market..
The PLI scheme was launched for the promotion of domestic manufacturing of key starting materials (KSMs)/drug intermediates and APIs in the country a few years ago..
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