There is a proposed bill before the Indian Parliament for establishing Biomedical Research Authority (BRA) for providing overarching framework in the area of biomedical research. This is part of the Biomedical Research on Human Subjects (Promotion and Regulation) Bill, 2006.
The proposed bill would imply renaming of CECHR as the National Ethics Committee (NEC) with the
The ICMR had initially evolved and implemented ‘Ethical Guidelines on Research Involving Human Subjects’ in 1980, which was revised in 2000 and later in 2006, which is eventually taking the form of the bill to be placed before the Parliament.
