{"id":3506,"date":"2023-03-01T08:17:04","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T02:47:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=3506"},"modified":"2025-03-26T12:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T07:18:22","slug":"pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-janaushadhi-kendras","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pradhan-mantri-bhartiya-janaushadhi-kendras\/","title":{"rendered":"Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBKs):<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>PMBKs<strong> are set up under Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana<\/strong>, which was <strong>launched<\/strong> by the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers <strong>in November 2008.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Objective<\/strong>: To <strong>provide quality medicines at affordable prices for all<\/strong>, particularly the poor, so as to <strong>reduce out-of-pocket expenses in healthcare<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>PMBKs <strong>provides generic drugs<\/strong>, which are available at lesser prices but are <strong>equivalent in quality<\/strong> and efficacy <strong>as expensive branded drugs<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li><strong>All therapeutic medicines<\/strong> are made <strong>available from Jan Aushadhi Stores.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Jan Aushadhi stores <strong>also 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 (PMBI)<\/strong> has been established under the Department of Pharmaceuticals, Govt. of India, with the support of all the CPSUs for <strong>co-coordinating procurement, supply, and marketing of generic drugs through the PMBKs.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Who can open a Jan Aushadhi Kendra?<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>State Governments<\/strong> or any organization \/ <strong>reputed NGOs<\/strong> \/ Trusts \/ <strong>Private hospitals<\/strong> \/ <strong>charitable institutions<\/strong> \/ Doctors \/ Unemployed pharmacists\/ individual entrepreneurs <strong>are<\/strong> <strong>eligible<\/strong> to apply for the new Jan Aushadhi Kendra.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The applicants <strong>shall have to employ one B Pharma<\/strong> \/ D Pharma degree holder as Pharmacist in their proposed store.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1) What is a generic drug?<\/h3>\n<p>A generic drug is a medication created to be the same as an already marketed brand-name drug in dosage form, safety, strength, route of administration, quality, performance characteristics, and intended use.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sci-tech\/health\/over-9000-janaushadhi-kendras-in-country-minister\/article66564330.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>Over 9,000 Janaushadhi Kendras in country: Minister<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras aims to provide quality medicines at affordable prices for all.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3506","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\/3506","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=3506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}