While addressing the Invest India’s Investors Summit 2021, Union Chemicals and Fertilisers Minister Mansukh Mandaviya said that India is the largest manufacturer and supplier of generic medicines, on top of that India supplied medicines to over 150 nations amid the pandemic.

“Today India is the largest manufacturer and supplier of generic medicines. We believe in 'Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam'. We are seeing to it that the world gets affordable medicine,” said Union Minister Mandaviya. “When the first wave of Covid-19 hit, the world didn't have (Corona) medicines. We not only brought our own situation under control, met our own medicine requirements but also supplied medicines to over 150 nations,” he added.