Out of the total grant, Rs 1.35 crore would be spent to upgrade the testing laboratory at the Government Siddha College, Palayamkottai, and the Anna Aringar Institute of Indian Medicine, Chennai while the remaining amount would be used to strengthen two small testing laboratories that the state currently has. We will have to have means to root out inferior drugs from circulation, and testing laboratories will have an important role to play in the coming days. Meanwhile, the Tamil Nadu government is also considering to set up a few more testing laboratories, though not much details are forthcoming in this regard. While confirming the same, Rao maintained that the proposal to have more testing laboratories has been on the anvil.
Discussions are currently on between the state government and the central government.