“Chandan Health Centres”, started by the Chandan group, are providing diagnostic services as well as have retail outlets for medicines in 9 states with 80 centres. The company is setting up 1000 “Chandan Health Centres” (company owned and operated) in the next 5 years. These centres will have diagnostic services as well as retail pharmacy stores.

Laila group is inviting applications from dedicated scientist to become a part of new innovative and exploratory research program for developing molecules/Nutraceuticals /Botanical drugs for unmet medical needs.

Ajanta Pharma Limited is an emerging, global pharmaceutical company with proven capabilities in the areas of product research, manufacturing & marketing.

Syngene International is one of India’s premier contract research and manufacturing organizations in providing customized service. Our services encompasses all across discovery chain: early stage discovery, process development, cGMP manufacturing and formulation development both in the small molecule and novel biologics area.

Quality healthcare and Apollo have become synonymous in the Indian subcontinent, a fact reiterated by global healthcare experts and international accreditation bodies. Committed to bring world class health care within the reach of every individual, Apollo Hospitals Group has joined hands with Munich Health, a world leader in the field of health insurance.

Shri Ram Murti Smarak College of Engineering & Technology, Bareilly & Lucknow are the self financed institutes managed and run by SRMS Trust. It is founded in 1996 and the college has demonstrated perennial evidence of merit and quality by achieving a respectable position among all parallel private and govt. colleges of UP Technical University.

About Authors:
Arpit Sharma
School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Shoolini University
Solan, H.P. India
asarpitsharma1@gmail.com

Abstract
The gastro retentive drug delivery system is a novel approach for the drugs having narrow absorption window in the gastrointestinal tract and has poor absorption. Gastro retentive drug delivery system mainly prolongs the gastric emptying time, thereby targeting site-specific drug release. Several techniques such as floating drug delivery system, low density system, raft system, mucoadhesive system, high density system, super porous hydro gel and magnetic system, have been employed. The physiological problems like short gastric residence time and unpredictable gastric emptying time were overcome with the use of floating dosage forms which provide opportunity for both local and systemic effect. Floating drug delivery system enable prolonged and continuous input of the drug to the upper part of the gastro retentional tract and improve the bioavailability of medication that is characterized by a narrow absorption window. The present review addresses briefly about the floating drug delivery system.

Flamingo Pharmaceuticals Ltd. is a quality driven pharmaceutical company with an experience of over two decades in global markets, exporting to 52 countries and having Rs.200 crores+ turnover. Flamingo has WHO-GMP/UK MHRA certified 100% EOU unit.

About Author:
AJEET*
Department of Pharmaceutics
S. D. College of Pharmacy and Vocational Studies,
Muzaffarnagar, U.P. India Pin: 251001
*ajeet_pharma111@rediffmail.com

INTRODUCTION
Amongst the various routes of drug delivery, oral route is perhaps the most preferred to the patient and the clinician alike. However, peroral administration of drugs has disadvantages such as hepatic first pass metabolism and enzymatic degradation within the GI tract, that prohibit oral administration of certain classes of drugs especially peptides and proteins. Consequently, other absorptive mucosae are considered as potential sites for drug administration. Transmucosal routes of drug delivery (i.e., the mucosal linings of the nasal, rectal, vaginal, ocular, and oral cavity) offer distinct advantages over peroral administration for systemic drug delivery. These advantages include possible bypass of first pass effect, avoidance of presystemic elimination within the GI tract, and, depending on the particular drug, a better enzymatic flora for drug absorption.

GVK is a diversified enterprise having interests in Infrastructure (Power, Transportation and Urban Infrastructure), Services (Hotels, Life-sciences and Financial) and Manufacturing (Particle Boards, Resins and Chemicals).GVKBIO, providing an integrated platform of research services across the Pharma R&D & Contract Manufacturing valu

Troikaa mainly focuses on Novel Drug Delivery Systems (NDDS). The company firmly believes in providing superior therapeutic benefits by improvising the formulations through Innovative Technologies.
Six patents have been filed in various areas of drug delivery. To handle competition, Troikaa adopted various multifaceted strategies to help stand their ground in the competitive market. Another fact that helps us stand out is their high quality products.

“Recent acquisition of Indian generic drug companies by MNCs has increased fears that the price of low-cost generic drugs will rise in India. The buy-outs will reduce domestic availability of many essential medicines; point out an internal assessment of the health ministry, Government of India. It is ironic that despite India supplying quality generic drugs around the world, the country has concerns about sufficient domestic drug supply and vaccines security. With the increasing acquisition of Indian companies by overseas drug corporations, there is a pressing need to rethink India’s drug strategy”. This statement was released by government of India before few months. Now what global honchos think about India?

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CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow is a premier R&D Institute under the aegis of the Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi which is an autonomous body under Department of Scientific and Industrial Research, Government of India.