Check a Gujarat drug licence

We check one register in Gujarat against official records. Each source below shows what it covers and whether it is answering today.

Drug licences in Gujarat are issued by the Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA), Gujarat.

Check a Gujarat pharmacy or distributor's drug licence before you buy from them or sell to them. Five free checks a month.

Check a Gujarat licence

What we can check in Gujarat

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Retail (Form 20/21)Wholesale (Form 20B/21B)

Who issues drug licences in Gujarat

Retail and wholesale drug licences in Gujarat are granted under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Drugs Rules, 1945 by the Food and Drug Control Administration (FDCA), Gujarat, the state licensing authority. It grants, renews, suspends and cancels licences, so a dispute about a licence's status is settled with it, not with us.

Reading a Gujarat drug licence number

Licence numbers in Gujarat look like this today. Characters shown as x stand for the serial, which is different on every licence.

20B-1xxxxx
Gujarat sale licences are the form followed by a six-digit serial: 20 or 21 for retail, 20B or 21B for wholesale.
20B-GJ-ADC-2xxxxx
The same licence is often printed with the state and the issuing office between the form and the serial. Type the number as it is printed.

A shop's retail licences under Form 20 and Form 21 are two separate licences with two serials. Check the one printed on the invoice you are relying on.
Gujarat certificates and invoices often list a wholesaler's two licences together, e.g. 20B/GJ/xxx-1xxxxx, 21B/GJ/xxx/1xxxxx. Enter one number at a time.

Which licence forms apply

A pharmacy or distributor in Gujarat holds one or more of these licences. The form is printed on the certificate, usually beside the number.

Retail · Form 20 / 21: A chemist or pharmacy selling to the public. Form 20 covers drugs other than those in Schedules C, C1 and X; Form 21 covers Schedule C and C1 drugs. Most shops hold both.
Wholesale · Form 20B / 21B: A distributor or stockist selling to other licensees, with the same split between the two forms.
Restricted · Form 20A / 21A: A restricted licence for a dealer without a registered pharmacist, such as a general store in a village, limited to a narrow range of medicines.

What we check in Gujarat: Retail (Form 20/21); Wholesale (Form 20B/21B).

What a result means

Valid: The licence is in the official records under that number, is not cancelled or suspended, and is within its validity. You see the firm name to compare with your invoice, and the date the records are as of.
Expired: The licence exists but its validity date has passed. The firm may have applied for renewal; ask for the renewed certificate before you trade.
Cancelled or suspended: The licensing authority has cancelled or suspended the licence. Do not buy from or sell to the firm under it until that changes.
Not found: No licence under that number in the Gujarat records. Check the number and the state first, and whether it is an older number the state has since replaced.
More than one firm: The number as typed fits several firms. We name none of them rather than guess; enter the full number or the firm name.
Could not be checked: The official records could not be reached. We say so plainly: an outage is never reported as "not found", and a check that cannot be completed does not count against your monthly allowance.

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Check a Gujarat licence

Every result is a status report from official records, not a certificate. When a source is down we say so — we never guess, and we never report an outage as though a licence were missing. A check that cannot reach its source does not count against your monthly allowance. Pharma Mithra is not affiliated with any state licensing authority.