How can a BAMS Doctor Start Ayurvedic Manufacturing Company?

One of our youtube viewer asked us about How a BAMS doctor can start Ayurvedic Manufacturing Company. Requirement for starting a ayurvedic manufacturing company is same as we have discussed in our article: How to start Ayurvedic Manufacturing Company? but this article is specific for Bachelor of Ayurveda, Medicine and Surgery (BAMS) doctors.

An Ayurvedic Manufacturing unit requires two technical persons to handle overall manufacturing and quality. For manufacturing, a manufacturing chemist is required and for quality control, an analytical chemist is required. BAMS doctors are pre-approved manufacturing chemists for Ayurvedic manufacturing Unit under drug and cosmetic act. So they only require analytical chemist as another technical person.

(In case of Siddha and Unani Medicines, technical person related to Siddha and Unani will be required)

Application for licence to manufacture Ayurvedic (including Siddha) or Unani drugs:

1. An application for the grant or renewal of a licence to manufacture for sale any Ayurvedic (including Siddha) or Unani drugs shall be made in Form 24-D to the Licensing Authority along with prescribed Fee.
2. Subject to the conditions of Rule 157 under Drug and Cosmetic Act & Rule being fulfilled, a licence to manufacture for sale any Ayurvedic (including Siddha) or Unani drugs shall be issued in Form 25-D. The licence shall be issued within a period of three months from the date of receipt of the application

Plant Specifications:

Plant should compile with conditions as specify in Schedule T under Drug and Cosmetic act & Rules.

Read Related: How to sell ayurvedic medicines online?

Documents Required:

• Application Form (Form 24-D).
• Prescribed Fees
• Requirement of schedule ‘T’ are to be fulfilled for which Departmental Inspection Team will conduct the inspection and submit its report on the prescribed Performa.
• Technical Persons qualification documents. One is of BAMS doctor and One is of Quality section as discussed above.
• Master Site Plan
• Power Availability Certificate from Electricity Department.
• List of Machinery/Lab. Equipments.
• List of medicine to be manufactured.
• Project Report.
• Ownership proof or rent agreement

AYUSH department team will inspect premises as per norms prescribed in Schedule T. If all requirements are fulfilled, manufacturing license will be issued.

Area Required:

Area Required for setting up manufacturing unit is 1200 Square feet covered area with separate cabins or partitions for each activity. If Unani medicines are manufactured in same premises an additional area of 400 sq. feet will be required.  You can read in detail at our article: How much Area required to start ayurvedic manufacturing plant.

Machinery and Equipment:

All the machinery and its part used in ayurvedic manufacturing is made-up of stainless steel. Machinery are in SS-304 and contact part should be in SS-316. To know in detail about machinery read our article: List of machinery used in Pharmaceutical and Ayurvedic Sector.

Laboratory Equipment:

An Ayurvedic manufacturing unit either establish own testing laboratory or unit can get testing done at government approved laboratories. Complete detail of laboratory equipment know here

Hope above information is helpful to you…