The ministry in consultation with the Drugs Technical Advisory Board (DTAB) issued the notification which was published through the Gazette in the last week of May, after issuing a draft amendment on February 27, 2024.
In the final notification, the Ministry said that no objections and suggestions were received from the public in respect of the draft rules.
The final amendment is called as the Drugs (Third Amendment) Rules, 2024 and will come into force on the date of its publication in the Official Gazette.
The two airports are added as the tenth and eleventh airports through which the drug imports are allowed as per the Rule 43A of the Drugs Rules, 1945.
As per the Rule 43A of the Drugs Rules, no drug shall be imported into India except through one of the places listed under the Rules. At present Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai, Delhi, Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Goa, Bengaluru and Visakhapatnam are listed as places through which drugs can be imported by air into India.
