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Background: Today, about 47 life threatening viruses have been notified for their outbreak potentials including SAR-CoV-2 The proximal origin of SARS-CoV-2 and its affinity to human ACE2 receptors ended in COVID-19 disease pandemic The genome of SARS-CoV-2 is quite complex and unclear, thus the progress on new antiviral drugs and vaccine discovery is hampered Worldwide, Indian horizon has emerged as potential source for supply of drugs like hydroxychloroquine, remdesvir, ritonavir lopinavir, etc , to several countries However, the research initiatives undertaken by Indian industries to fight against COVID-19 are relatively lower than the research attempts of developed countries Furthermore, Indian industry’s collaboration with scientists of research institutes or universities is also very limited Therefore, the need for enhancing antiviral research activities in India is highly recommended to combat COVID-19 like pandemic, if arise in future as well Hypothesis: Being Indian pharma market as one of the top five leading pharma marketer of this globe, the COVID-19 pandemic lessoned us to realize the need for improving the antiviral research among pharmaceutical industries of Indian horizon It is needed for the hour as measure to sustain the pharma market credibility at globe Results and Conclusion: In this raising era of viral epidemics, it is imperative that Indian pharmaceutical industries should initiate antiviral research through collaborative approach between pharmaceutical industry and scientists across the globe including researchers from academia and non-profit research organization Thus, this attempt will definitely improve the antiviral and other drug discovery research initiatives among Indian pharmaceutical industries and will save millions of life from viral pandemics like COVID-19 in near future