It is alleged that the racket is operating through hospital staff who have access to remdesivir. Modi govt, states have initiated steps to check black-marketing.
Pharma firms have asked govt for a forecast on Covid trajectory to meet demand since manufacturing remdesivir takes time, by which time a vaccine could become available.
Complaint by MP to DCGI also highlights that the cost proposed by Glenmark is ‘definitely not in the interest of the poor, lower middle class and middle-class people of India’.
The order comes after the govt received a complaint from LocalCircles, saying the drug, whose MRP is Rs 5,400, is being sold at a price of between Rs 15,000 and Rs 60,000.
For an industry globally classified as hazardous, protections such as health insurance and a provident fund for workers are necessities. In Sivakasi, they remain elusive.
The industry forecasts exports are set to grow 16% in 2025-26, boosted by surplus domestic production and a drive to push into 26 underserved global markets with strong potential.
Indigenisation level will progressively increase up to 60 percent with key sub-assemblies, electronics and mechanical parts being manufactured locally.
It is a brilliant, reasonably priced, and mostly homemade aircraft with a stellar safety record; only two crashes in 24 years since its first flight. But its crash is a moment of introspection.
In our country in every calamity our black-marketeers know to make a profit
Not possible to control by Deptt of Chemicals and Fertilisers at all for obvious reasons.