{"id":13964,"date":"2023-08-12T11:29:43","date_gmt":"2023-08-12T05:59:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=13964"},"modified":"2025-04-02T08:47:00","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T03:17:00","slug":"about-pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-janaushadhi-kendras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/about-pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-janaushadhi-kendras\/","title":{"rendered":"About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>These are set up under <strong>Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana<\/strong>, which was launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in November 2008.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective:<\/strong> To provide quality medicines at affordable prices for all, particularly the poor, so as to reduce out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare.<\/li>\n<li>They <strong>provide generic drugs,<\/strong> which are available at lesser prices but are equivalent in quality and efficacy as expensive branded drugs.<\/li>\n<li>All therapeutic medicines are made available from Jan Aushadhi Stores.<\/li>\n<li>Jan Aushadhi stores also sell allied medical products commonly sold in chemist shops so as to improve the viability of running the Jan Aushadhi store.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Pharmaceutical &amp; Medical Devices Bureau of India<\/strong> (PMBI) has been established under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Govt. of India, with the support of all the CPSUs for co-coordinating procurement, supply, and marketing of generic drugs through the PMBKs.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Who can open a Jan Aushadhi Kendra?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>State Governments<\/strong> or any organization \/ reputed NGOs \/ Trusts \/ Private hospitals \/ charitable institutions \/ Doctors \/ Unemployed pharmacists\/ individual entrepreneurs are eligible to apply for the new Jan Aushadhi Kendra.<\/li>\n<li>The applicants shall have to employ one B Pharma \/ D Pharma degree holder as Pharmacist in their proposed store.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is NGO?<\/h3>\n<p>An NGO, or Non-Governmental Organization, is a type of organization that operates independently of government control and is typically focused on addressing social, environmental, humanitarian, or developmental issues.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/newsonair.com\/2023\/08\/12\/railways-ministry-to-establish-pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-janaushadhi-kendras-at-railway-stations-across-the-country\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Railways Ministry to establish Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras at railway stations across the country<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras are set up under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, which was launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-13964","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\/13964","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=13964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}