The drug testing laboratory housed in the department of pharmaceutical sciences and technology (above) at BIT-Mesra in Ranchi. So, giving us a licence will mean the state will have another lab option for drug testing. The state's only other drug testing lab is relatively younger, set up in Namkum in 2008, but its operations have always been marred by acute crunch of manpower and resources. Currently, the Namkum lab has one government analyst and three assistant drug analysts. From what I can recall, a team from Drug Controller General of India (a central licensing authority) had asked Mesra to segregate academic work and drug testing space.

Source: The Telegraph March 27, 2017 21:22 UTC