Question

License for the manufacture of medicinal and toilet preparations is issued by

• A. Director of Health services
• B. Central Government
• C. Excise Commissioner of the states
• D. Commissioner of the Central Excise

Hint:

The Central Government regulates the licensing and approval process for medicinal products and toilet preparations.

Answer 1

The Correct Option is B

Medicinal and toilet preparations usually contain alcohol, and licensing for alcohol-containing pharmaceutical products is handled separately from the usual state-level drug licensing route. Under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act framework, this specific category of license is issued by the Central Government, not by the Director of Health Services, an excise commissioner, or the Central Excise commissioner, all of whom handle different, non-licensing functions. So the answer is Central Government.

Answer 2

Another way to see this is to separate "who taxes/administers" from "who actually licenses manufacturing."

1. Director of Health services: Handles state public-health administration and hospital services, an administrative health role with no manufacturing-license authority.
2. Central Government: Holds the specific statutory authority to license manufacture of medicinal and toilet preparations (the alcohol-containing category), making it the body actually responsible for granting this type of license.
3. Excise Commissioner of the states: Concerned with excise duty collection on alcohol and related goods at the state level, a revenue function, not a licensing function.
4. Commissioner of the Central Excise: Concerned with the collection of central excise duties on manufactured goods generally, again a taxation role rather than a drug-licensing role.

Since none of the excise or health-administration bodies actually grant this manufacturing license, and this category is specifically reserved to the Central Government under the Act, that is the correct authority.

Therefore, the correct answer is Central Government.