Telangana forms task force for Pharma City development

The state has a large base of pharmaceutical industry and the necessary ecosystem for its further growth

The Telangana government has constituted a task force committee for the development of  the proposed Pharma City project at Mucherla village in Rangareddy district.

Last year, the government announced a project of the size of about 11,000 acres, comprising processing and non processing areas and common effluent treatment plants and research and education facilities, will be developed near Hyderabad to attract more investment into the pharma sector.

Telangana has a large base of pharmaceutical industry and the necessary ecosystem for its further growth.

Arvind Kumar, secretary, Industries, will head the committee while senior officials from the state pollution control board, Hyderabad Metro Water Supply and Sewerage Board and other departments along with three representatives from the Bulk Drug Manufacturers Association (BDMA) have been taken as members.

“The vice chairman and managing director of Telangana State Industrial Infrastructure  Corporation (TSIIC) has requested the government to appoint a special task force committee for development of state-of-the-art Pharma City with world-class infrastructure, support facilities and utilities and for speedy grounding of the project,” the industry department stated in its orders.

The committee will meet once in a month or whenever necessary and monitor the project, it said.