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India: Pharmacy price-fixing policy means missed deadline to Supreme Court

By  |  November 9, 2012
India: Pharmacy price-fixing policy means missed deadline to Supreme Court

According to reports, the Union Cabinet decided to not discuss the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Policy (NPPP) in a recent meeting due to concerns over the NPPP’s price-fixing mechanism policy. The finance ministry raised concerns over the NPPP, and, as a result, the delay in discussion threatens to prevent the NPPP from being finalized and submitted to the Supreme Court by its given deadline of November 25. A group of ministers had originally suggested the price-fixing mechanism, though the finance ministry has found loopholes in its legislature.

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