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The Integrated Pharmaceutical Database Management System 2.0 and Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 app were launched

About IPDMS

• IPDMS 2.0 is an integrated, responsive, cloud-based application developed by NPPA with technical support from Centre for Advance Computing (C-DAC).
• It is envisaged to optimise synergies in operations in order to promote the government’s thrust on ‘Ease of Doing Business’.
• It would provide a single window for submissions of various forms as mandated under Drug Price Control Order (DPCO), 2013.
• It would also enable paperless functioning of NPPA and facilitate the stakeholders to connect with it from across the country.

About Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 app

• Pharma Sahi Daam 2.0 app will have updated features like speech recognition, availability in Hindi and English, share button and medicine bookmarking.
• This version of Pharma Sahi Daam also has a facility for launching complaints by consumers through the consumer complaint-handling module.
• The app will be available in both iOS and Android versions.

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA)

• NPPA is celebrating its Silver Jubilee, an attached office of Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP), Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers.
• NPPA was constituted in 1997 as an independent Regulator for pricing of drugs to Implement provisions of Drugs (Prices Control) Order (DPCO).
• It Monitors availability of drugs, identify shortages and to take remedial steps.

• It Maintains data on production, exports and imports etc. for bulk drugs and formulations.