{"id":30023,"date":"2017-08-14T13:52:22","date_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:52:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/?p=30023"},"modified":"2017-08-14T13:52:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T13:52:22","slug":"committee-make-drugs-affordable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/committee-make-drugs-affordable\/","title":{"rendered":"Committee to make drugs more affordable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Question: Drug Price Control Orders (DPCO) are issued by the Government in accordance with<\/strong><br \/>\n(a) Essential Commodities Act, 1955<br \/>\n(b) Consumer Protection Act, 1986<br \/>\n(c) Drugs &amp; Cosmetics Act, 1940<br \/>\n(d) None of the above<br \/>\n<strong>Ans: (a)<br \/>\nRelated Fact :<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>On August 8, 2017, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh L. Mandaviya informed the Lok Sabha that a committee of joint secretaries has been set up for ensuring enhanced affordability, availability and accessibility of drugs for the citizens.<\/li>\n<li>The committee is designed to suggest ways to make pricing policy in favour of poor patients.<\/li>\n<li>It will also suggest ways to make existing mechanisms for collection of market based data on prices of medicines more robust and stream lined.<\/li>\n<li>The committee would also review the scope of Drugs (Price Control) Order 2013 (DPCO 2013) and suggest ways for strengthening the regulatory provisions of the order.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Resource links:<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-forms-panel-to-make-drugs-more-affordable\/article19450593.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/national\/govt-forms-panel-to-make-drugs-more-affordable\/article19450593.ece<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: Drug Price Control Orders (DPCO) are issued by the Government in accordance with (a) Essential Commodities Act, 1955 (b) Consumer Protection Act, 1986 (c) Drugs &amp; Cosmetics Act, 1940 (d) None of the above Ans: (a) Related Fact : On August 8, 2017, Minister of State for Chemicals and Fertilisers Mansukh L. Mandaviya informed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":30024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1133],"tags":[2557],"class_list":["post-30023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cc","tag-commission-committee-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30023"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30023\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edristi.in\/hi\/%e0%a4%b9%e0%a5%8b%e0%a4%ae\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}