The “Treatment guidelines for antimicrobial use in common syndromes” aims to rationalize the usage of antibiotics on National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM) and to establish consistency in the treatment of various infectious conditions. ICMR established AMR surveillance network in 2012 to collect nationally representative data on trends and patterns of AMR to the commonly used antibiotics in pathogens of public health importance. The data emanating from this network has been used to guide th