Health/MedicineThe strategic partnership aims to strengthen the pharmaceutical and medical device ecosystem by promoting quality standards, regulatory excellence, innovation and capacity building across the sector, according to the ministry.
It highlighted four key drivers behind the momentum like nearly $5 billion in government funding for early-stage and translational research, stronger academia-industry collaboration, regulatory reforms that have reduced drug development timelines from 180-270 days to 60-120 days and shared research and manufacturing infrastructure such as Genome Valley and C-CAMP.
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The initiative on this count will begin with the vaccination drive at Asia's oldest and biggest red-light area, Sonagachi in North Kolkata. The project will be run by the state government in association with the Durbar Mahila Samanwaya Committee, a non-governmental body working for the welfare of the sex workers and their children in the Sonagachi area.
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