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  Medicines to get cheaper from Sep 22 as 5% GST removed: NPPA issues guidelines to pharma companies

  Business | September 14, 2025 18:33 IST

  Starting September 22, 2025, medicines under the 5% GST slab will be exempt from GST, making them cheaper, as per NPPA's new directive to pharmaceutical companies.

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  Prices of N-95 masks down by up to 47% after NPPA advisory

  India | May 25, 2020 21:28 IST

  Leading manufacturers and importers of N-95 masks have reduced prices by up to 47 per after regulator NPPA stepped in to ensure the availability of this respiratory protection device at affordable rates in the country, the government said on Monday.

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  After stents, Modi govt working to bring more medical devices under price control

  May 11, 2017 12:31 IST

  Stents have been added to the National List of Essential Medicines and we are trying to put more medical devices in this list to ensure medicines and medical devices remain affordable, Health minister JP Nadda said

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  After cardiac stents, 14 more medical devices likely to see price regulation: Report

  India | February 21, 2017 15:19 IST

  After cardiac stents, around 14 more medical devices are likely to see a price regulation in the coming months, according to a report in Times of India.

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  NPPA slashes stent prices by over 80 pc, notifies price cap at Rs 30,000

  India | February 14, 2017 14:14 IST

  In a huge relief for lakhs of patients who have to opt for coronary angioplasty to insert stents to open up clogged arteries, the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) on Monday fixed a price ceiling of drug eluting stents (DES) and biores

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  NPPA caps prices of 36 more drugs to improve access

  September 20, 2014 7:54 IST

  New Delhi: In its latest move to make essential medicines more affordable to all, the national drug pricing regulator, National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), on Friday announced to cap the prices of 36 drugs including