Central Drugs Standard Control Organization

Directorate General of Health Services
Ministry of Health & Family Welfare
Government of India

Ethics Committee

About the Ethics Committee

The Ethics Committee (EC) plays a vital role in ensuring the protection, safety, rights, and well-being of human subjects participating in clinical trials and biomedical research regulated under NDCTR 2019.

The Ethics Committee is responsible for the ethical review, approval, and oversight of clinical trial proposals, informed consent process and documents, subject recruitment procedures, and compensation in case of trial-related injury or death, as applicable.

The Ethics Committee is constituted as per Chapter III of NDCTR 2019 requirements and includes members from medical, scientific, ethical, legal, and lay backgrounds to ensure independent, competent, and unbiased review of research proposals.

All Ethics Committees registered under Chapter III of NDCTR 2019, CDSCO are required to operate transparently and independently, maintain proper documentation, and submit reports as mandated by regulatory authorities.

The Ethics Committee remains committed to upholding the highest ethical standards in clinical research and ensuring public trust in the regulatory oversight of clinical trials in India.

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1 Parallel submission and processing of Clinical Trial applications by CDSCO and Ethics Committees registered under NDCTR, 2019 2026-May-11 345 KB
2 Ethics Committee Inspection Checklist 2025-May-29 691 KB
3 List of Registered / Re Registration Ethics Committee as on 15.12.2022 2023-Jan-04 503 KB
4 Ethics Committee Registration Data 2019-Aug-30 836 KB
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1 Regulatory Alert regarding Cancellation of Registration Certificates of Ethics Committees under the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 2026-Jul-24 96 KB
2 List of Debarment of Principal Investigators by CLA 2026-Jun-12 2691 KB
3 List of Suspended Ethics Committee by CLA 2026-Jun-12 1584 KB
4 List of Ethics Committees cancelled by CLA 2025-Dec-10 74 KB
5 Launching of registration of Clinical Research Organisation applications through SUGAM Portal 2025-Mar-04 1867 KB
6 Notice regarding Ethics committee registration through SUGAM portal 2018-Aug-01 2,170KB
7 Notice Ethic Committee Clinical trial 2013-Jul-30 317KB
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1 G.S.R 778 (E) dated 14 Oct 2022 regarding the New Drugs and Clinical Trials (Third Amendment) Rules 2022 2022-Oct-14 1209 KB
2 Extract of the New Drugs and Clinical Trials Rules 2019 relevant to Ethics Committee for Clinical Trial, Bioavailability and Bioequivalence study 2022-Aug-08 354 KB
3 The New Drugs Clinical Trials Rules, 2019 2019-Mar-19 2458 KB