Check a Telangana drug licence

We check 2 registers in Telangana against official records. Each source below shows what it covers and whether it is answering today.

Drug licences in Telangana are issued by the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana.

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

Check a Telangana licence

What we can check in Telangana

Drug Licence

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

Pharmacist registration

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Who issues drug licences in Telangana

Retail and wholesale drug licences in Telangana are granted under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940 and the Drugs Rules, 1945 by the Drugs Control Administration, Telangana, 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. Its official website is dca.telangana.gov.in.

Reading a Telangana drug licence number

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

xxx/MN/TG/96/RW
Telangana numbers are slash-separated: a serial, letter codes, the state letters, a year and a class marker - R for retail, W for wholesale, RW for both.

Telangana changed its official abbreviation from TS to TG in 2024, so newer certificates may print TG where older ones print TS. Both are Telangana.
Licences issued before Telangana was formed in June 2014 carry AP rather than TG or TS. They are still Telangana licences if the premises are in Telangana, so choose Telangana as the state.
Some certificates print two licence numbers joined with '&'. Check each one separately.

Which licence forms apply

A pharmacy or distributor in Telangana 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 Telangana: 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 Telangana 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 Telangana 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.