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World Health Organization WHO has also established that even essential drugs in India with lowest printed Maximum-Retail-Price MRP are exorbitantly priced over manufacturing-cost followed by abnormally high trade-margin between ex-factory price and MRP. National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority NPPA is considering capping of profit-margins of 73 more drugs but leaving out many more again. It is beyond understanding why and how NPPA does not have a profit-formula uniformly for all drugs at a time when even generic medicines considered to be a cheaper version of respective branded medicines have exorbitant trade-margins of several hundred percent. Competition Commission of India CCI and Central Information Commission CIC have taken cognizance of serious issue. There are many medicines whe...

Presently there is a flood of SMSs on mobile-phones offering a complete package of so many blood-tests at just rupees 999 that too with facility to collect blood-samples from residences or work-places of desiring ones. But these SMSs do not give details and addresses of laboratories where blood-tests are to be conducted. Either such offers do not come from recognised and government-approved laboratories, or normal pathological laboratories are looting public. Union Ministry of Health and Family Welfare should probe into the matter. Those offering such economical packages should be directed to give details of laboratories in SMSs with compulsion to have a proper website of such laboratories. Union Health Ministry should also develop a software to be compulsorily used by all recognised...

Mega-star Amitabh Bachchan once disclosed at Indian Institute of Management (IIM) Ahmadabad about his not advertising for cola-drinks after a school-student at Jaipur drew his attention about harmful ingredients in cola-drinks. It is significant that cola-companies voluntarily stopped selling cola-drinks in schools worldwide in view of increasing obesity in school-going children. Indian government should also not only ban advertisements but even sale of cola drinks in the country. Earlier also, soft-drink manufacturers were asked to remove an oil from their products which was found to be harmful for health. It is time that Union government, Indian Agricultural Research Institute (IARI) and soft-drink manufacturers should revive drinks like old and famous rose-flavoured ones, which can n...

 Delay in public-utility government-projects involving civil-work like of fly-overs, bridges, buildings etc is mainly due to a modus-operandie between contractors and authorities in various government-departments. Contractors get delayed projects by bribing other concerned departments to delay supplies of construction-material to be supplied by public-authorities or shifting of system-lines like of sewage, water or electricity. Even courts are approached to give authenticity for such dramatic delays. Contractors then claim damages instead of being penalised. They get government-officers of their choice to arbitrate on exaggerated claims by colliding with such arbitrators. Union and state governments should look into such malpractices involving concerned ones of all ranks, and should tak...