The Centre has amended the Drugs Rules, 1945, removing syrups from Schedule K exemptions, mandating a doctor's prescription for their sale to ensure stricter regulatory control.

To be sure, monitoring is lax, and even Schedule H drugs, which can only be sold on prescription, are freely available across the counter at pharmacies | India News

According to the ministry of health, a prescription by a doctor will be required for the purchase of 'syrups', including cough syrups. | India News

Chemists must now have a doctor's prescription to sell cough syrups. The government has changed the Drugs Rules, 1945. This stops over-the-counter sales of syrup-based medicines.…

You will now require a doctor’s prescription to buy cough syrups and other syrup medicines.

Govt amends rules to bring cough syrups under stricter regulatory oversight | India News

Indian syrups have been linked to deaths of children at home and abroad

Even in small villages with a population of less than 1,000, where certain remedies including cough syrups were allowed to be sold without retail sale licences so far, now only…