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Explain the factors which contribute to the growth of India’s pharmaceutical industry with specific reference to its concentration in western region of India.

  • UPSC 2025
  • Industry

The legal turn of 1970. The Patents Act 1970 recognised process patents only, so any firm that could invent a new route to a known molecule could sell it lawfully. This converted synthetic-chemistry skill into a licence to compete, the single most important growth factor.

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  • Factors Behind the Growth of the Industry
  • Explaining the Western Concentration: A Location Framework
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