POLICY ON NEW DRUG APPLICATION: 1. The content of New Drug Application (NDA) should be designed by the sponsor to answer general question as follows: i. Does the new drug provide a clinical benefit? ii. Is the associated risk outweighing the benefits for the proposed indication? iii. Can the product be manufactured ensuring quality and batch to batch consistency? 2. There should be a system that before an NDA is submitted to the CDSCO, the applicant should discuss with CDSCO wherein the applicant may present summary of the clinical, CMC, Pre-clinical, Clinical and any other information the applicant considers relevant. 3. Such discussion to help the reviewers becomes acquainted with the information to be included in the NDA. 4. In case the sponsor intends to seek exemption of local clinical trial, clear request for the same should be made in the NDA alongwith rationale and justification and the relevant regulatory provision, under which the exemption is sought. 5. Similarly, in case the sponsor intends to seek approval under Accelerated approval process or expeditious review process. clear request for the same should be made in the NDA alongwith rationale and justification and the relevant regulatory provision, under which the exemption is sought.6. However, accelerated approval should be used for a drug that represent significant advances over existing treatment or in case there is an unmet medical need for the indication for which the drug is intended, orphan drug for rare disease etc. in accordance with the provision prescribed under Second Schedule of ND& CT Rules, 2019.