{"id":13841,"date":"2023-08-08T05:37:02","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T00:07:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13841"},"modified":"2025-04-02T07:45:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T02:15:18","slug":"national-pharmaceutical-pricing-authority-nppa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/national-pharmaceutical-pricing-authority-nppa\/","title":{"rendered":"National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is a <strong>government regulatory agency<\/strong> established with the ai<strong>m of controlling and regulating the prices of pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices in the country<\/strong> to ensure their availability at affordable rates.<\/li>\n<li>It was <strong>constituted vide Government of India Resolution dated 29th August 1997<\/strong> as an <strong>attached office of the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP),<\/strong> Ministry of Chemicals &amp; Fertilizers.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li><strong>Functions<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>To implement and <strong>enforce the provisions of the Drugs (Prices Control) Order<\/strong> in accordance with the powers delegated to it.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>deal with all legal matters<\/strong> <strong>arising out of the decisions<\/strong> of the Authority.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>monitor the availability of drugs, identify shortages<\/strong>, if any, and to take remedial steps.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>collect\/ maintain data on production, exports and imports<\/strong>, market share of individual companies, <strong>profitability of companies<\/strong> etc, <strong>for bulk drugs<\/strong> and formulations.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>undertake and\/ or sponsor relevant studies<\/strong> in respect of pricing of drugs\/ pharmaceuticals.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>recruit\/ appoint the officers and other staff members of the Authority<\/strong>, as per rules and procedures laid down by the Government.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>render advice to the Central Government <\/strong>on changes\/ revisions in the drug policy.<\/li>\n<li>To <strong>render assistance to the Central Government in the parliamentary matters<\/strong> relating to drug pricing.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What are Bulk Drugs?<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>A bulk drug, <strong>also called an active pharmaceutical ingredient (API),<\/strong> is the <strong>key ingredient of a drug<\/strong> or medicine, which <strong>lends it the desired therapeutic effect <\/strong>or produces the intended pharmacological activity.<\/li>\n<li>For example, paracetamol is a bulk drug, which acts against pain.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1)\u00a0What is the Drugs (Prices Control) Order?<\/h3>\n<p>The Drugs (Prices Control) Order (DPCO) is a regulatory framework established by the Government of India to control and regulate the prices of pharmaceutical drugs in the country. The DPCO is aimed at ensuring that essential and life-saving medicines are available to the general population at reasonable and affordable prices.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zeebiz.com\/companies\/news-drug-pricing-regulator-nppa-fixes-retail-prices-of-44-drug-formulations-fever-heart-medicines-included-248073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Drug pricing regulator NPPA fixes retail rates of 44 formulations; fever, heart medicines included<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NPPA is a government regulatory agency established with the aim of controlling and regulating the prices of pharmaceutical drugs and medical devices in the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13842,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13842"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}