The National Human Rights Commission has written to the Union Health Ministry to seek their view on guidelines prepared by the NHRC on clinical trials including compensation and risks involved. The guidelines framed by an expert committee of NHRC have suggested that ethics committees should be set up in all institutions undertaking studies on human subjects and should be registered as per the Act. The NHRC's expert committee also suggested that standard operating procedures (SOPs) should be written down and followed in all clinical trials based on prevailing good clinical practices (GCP) guidelines for biomedical research on human participants and