Kerala is first Indian state to set up Price Monitoring and Research Unit
Kerala is first Indian state to set up Price Monitoring and Research Unit: Details, Highlights
Kerala became the first State to set up a Price Monitoring and Research Unit (PMRU) to track violation of prices of essential drugs and medical devices under the Drugs Price Control Order (DPCO).
The move comes more than five years after the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) proposed such a system for the States and the Union Territories.
This would provide technical help to the state drug controllers.
This will also help the NPPA to monitor notified prices of medicines, detect violation of the provisions of the DPCO, look at price compliance, collect test samples of drugs, and collect and compile market-based data of scheduled as well as non-scheduled formulations.
Kerala
Capital: Thiruvananthapuram
Districts: 14
Governor: Palanisamy Sathasivam
Chief Minister: Pinarayi Vijayan