Shambhavi Naik quoted in The Print on custom duty of lab chemicals

Shambhavi Naik, Head of Research at Takshashila Institution, was quoted in The Print on the recent government notification regarding custom duty on imported lab chemicals.

She was quoted as saying, “The new notification will save cost but will delay the process of procuring these products as it adds a level of scrutiny. This would further slow down the research process. If this is to help domestic manufacturing of lab chemicals, agencies must recognise that many international journals require standardised reagents’ use for publication. It is easier to publish when using well-established foreign brands; that impact can not be made by domestic manufacturing, very easily.”

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