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Allocation on promoting PMBJP by DoP doubled in 2020-21 to Rs. 13.62 crore
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Gireesh Babu, New Delhi
January 17 , 2022
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Allocation on promoting Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) by the Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) has more than doubled in the year 2020-21 to Rs. 13.62 crore as against Rs. 5.70 crore in the previous year.
The overall spending on promotion of PMBJP scheme in the last five financial years is around Rs. 33.27 crore, including Rs. 2.61 crore spend in 2016-17, Rs. 4.74 spend in the year 2017-18 and Rs. 6.60 crore spend in the year 2018-19, according to the ministry of chemicals and fertilisers.
Under the PMBJP implemented by the DoP, till the end of November, 2021, about 8,533 Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Kendras (PMBJKs) were set up and made functional across the country, covering all districts of the country.
Out of the total Janaushadhi Kendras, the highest number of stores functional till November is in Uttar Pradesh, with 1,177 stores, followed by Karnataka with 954 stores and Kerala with 935 stores. Tamil Nadu has 858 functional stores.
However, many major states which have a high number of pharma manufacturing units are yet to catch up, including Maharashtra, which has 623 stores, Gujarat with 551 stores, Himachal Pradesh with 63 stores, Madhya Pradesh with 239 stores and Punjab and Rajasthan with 302 and 137 stores respectively. While Delhi has 374 stores, West Bengal has 182 stores and Haryana has 231 stores, according to the data from the ministry.
The product basket of PMBJP comprises 1,451 medicines and 240 surgical and consumables. The ministry said that the Pharmaceuticals & Medical Devices Bureau of India (PMBI), the implementing agency of Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana, makes regular efforts for making all the drugs of its product basket available to the consumers.
“Floating tenders are issued regularly by PMBI as an ongoing process for required medicines to avoid any stock-out situation,” said minister Dr Mansukh Mandaviya recently.
Interestingly, the Ministry of Ayush is also pushing the medicines under its systems to be sold through the PMBJPs, to offer these medicines at a lower cost to the public.
It has forwarded the Department of Pharmaceuticals, a list of twenty ayurvedic medicines for inclusion in the product basket of PMBJP. This include certain pack sizes of Arjunarishta (Parthadyarishta), Drakashasava and Kurnarlysava under Arishta segment, Chyawanprash, Haridrakhand and Puga Khand (Supari Pak) under Avleha, Gokshuradi Guggulu and Yogaraj Guggulu under Guggulu, Triphala Churna (Haritaki+bibhitaki+amalaki), Avipattikara Churna, Hingavashtaka Churna, Sitopaladi Churrta, Arjuna Churna, Ashwagandha Churna and Amalaki (Amla) Churna under Churna category and Lashunadi Vatican and Punarnavadi Mandura under Gutika category.
All these medicines suggested to be sold through the Janaushadhi Kendras come with their reference in Ayurvedic Pharmacopoeia of India.
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