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ELIGIBILITY FOR ALLOTMENT OF PMBJP CENTRE

Any unemployed pharmacist, doctor, registered medical practitioner, trust, NGO, private hospital,
society, self help group or State accredited agencies are eligible for allotment of a centre. To open
centre, one has to procure retail drug sale licence in the name of Janaushadhi centre. The size of
the shop should be 120 square feet. The Government has set the target of opening 10,000 centres
by March 2024. For online registration click on http://janaushadhi.gov.in/online_registration.aspx

Everyday around 2.5 to 3 BENEFICIARIES INTERACT WITH THE PM ON MARCH 7, 2020
Lakh people reach these
centres across the country. BENEFICIARY 1: ASHOK KUMAR BETLA FROM
There are at least four GUWAHATI, ASSAM
people working at each I am 60-year-old with diabetes, blood pressure
centre which is providing and heart ailments. I had undergone a surgery
direct employment to 25-30 thousand five years ago. Since then I have to take medicines
people. If we add their families too, than regularly. For the past 10 months, I am buying
the connect will be of around 1.25 Lakh medicines continuously from Janaushadhi centre.
people who are beneficiaries now I am saving Rs 2,500 every month ever since
I started buying medicines from Janaushadhi
Mansukh L Mandaviya, Union Minister centres. I am depositing the saved money into
of State for Chemicals and Fertilizers my granddaughter's Sukanya Samriddhi Yojana
account.

Increase in the number of PMBJP centres BENEFICIARY 2: DEEPA SHAH FROM
DEHRADUN, UTTARAKHAND
6200 I am 65-year-old with paralysis from 2011
5000
3322 and taking medicines since then. I am
5140 buying medicines from Janaushadhi centres

1000 1080 since 2015. My husband is also a Divyang...
Sir, as compared to before, our expenditure
99 269 is reduced by Rs 3,000 per month. My
100 experience says that these drugs are not
2014-15 2015-16 2016-17 2017-18 2018-19 2019-20 only affordable but are of good quality.

up Janaushadhi Centres all across the country. which is evident from the fact that before 2014,
The Central Government rechristened the there were only 99 centres operating with a sale
Janaushadhi Scheme of 2008 to Pradhan Mantri of medicines of Rs 7 Crore of medicines. But
Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana in 2015. It also in 2020, there are 6,634 centres in operation
made the Bureau of Pharma PSU of India (BPPI) across 732 districts of the country. Medicines for
as the nodal agency to ensure the project’s smooth all kind of ailments like diabetes, cardiovascular
run across the country. It has also been decided disease, cancer and gastro disorders are
to celebrate Janaushadhi Divas on March 7 available at an affordable price.
every year for its awareness. MEDICINES OF GLOBAL STANDARD
The scheme achieved stupendous success In an interaction with the beneficiaries of

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