{"id":20217,"date":"2024-02-07T06:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-02-07T01:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=20217"},"modified":"2026-07-31T12:45:48","modified_gmt":"2026-07-31T07:15:48","slug":"pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-jan-aushadhi-kendras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-jan-aushadhi-kendras\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras:\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\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>These Kendra\u2019s provide generic drugs, 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 <strong>sell allied medical products<\/strong> 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 <strong>procurement, supply, and marketing <\/strong>of generic drugs through the PMBKs.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3><strong>Who is eligible to open a Jan Aushadhi Kendra?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>State Governments or any organization \/ reputed <strong>NGOs <\/strong>\/ Trusts \/ <strong>Private hospitals<\/strong> \/ 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<li>Primary Agricultural Credit Societies.\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<table style=\"border-collapse: collapse; width: 87.4917%; height: 379px;\">\n<tbody>\n<tr style=\"height: 25px;\">\n<td class=\"tb-color\" style=\"width: 100%; height: 25px; 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height: 25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pm-kisan-samman-nidhi-yojana\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>PM Kisan Samman Nidhi Yojana<\/strong><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1:What is the Pharmaceuticals &amp; Medical Devices Bureau of India?<\/h3>\n<p>\u00a0Pharmaceuticals &amp; Medical Devices Bureau of India (PMBI) is the implementing agency of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP). PMBI [earlier called Bureau of Pharma PSUs of India (BPPI)] was established in December, 2008 under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Government of India.<\/p>\n<p>\n<strong>Source:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2003208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Operation of Jan Aushadhi Kendra<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Jan Aushadhi Kendras are set up under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, which was launched by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers in November 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":20218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","no-featured-image-padding"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217","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=20217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":116268,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20217\/revisions\/116268"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}