India’s Interim Budget Pushes Innovation, Green Production, HPV Vaccination

India’s interim budget 2024 hikes allocation for production-linked incentive schemes in pharmaceuticals, supports biotech start-ups - particularly green ones- and sets the right note for inclusion of HPV vaccination in the country’s Universal Immunization Program, one of the world's largest public health programs. How does it help?

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India’s interim budget 2024 furthers the government’s push for self-reliance with a hike in the allocation for production-linked incentive (PLI) schemes related to pharmaceuticals, support for green bio-production processes and innovation, as well as growth of medical colleges.

In continuation of a focus on specific diseases, like on sickle cell anemia in the fiscal year 2023-24 budget, this...

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