Direct pharma company to implement charter of demands, govt. urged

CITU State vice-president D. Govinda Rao on Wednesday urged the State government to direct Aurobindo Pharma Limited to implement charter of demands since the previous wage agreement was lapsed in March, 2018. The CITU organised ‘Maha Dharna’ at the Srikakulam Collector’s office as part of the State-wide agitations over the pending issues of Aurobindo Pharma’s … Read more

Ensure peaceful atmosphere around factory, pharma company urges officials

Aurobindo Pharma Limited urged Srikakulam district administration to ensure peaceful work atmosphere in and around the factory located at Pydibhimavaram while alleging that the trade unions were trying to create industrial unrest in spite of payment of salaries and wages promptly with the directive of the Labour Department. In a press release on Monday, the … Read more

USFDA rescinds letter to Aurobindo Pharma unit

Aurobindo Pharma on Friday said the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) inspection of its Unit IV, a general injectable formulation manufacturing facility here, is “still open and under review.” This follows the regulator rescinding a 90-day VAl (Voluntary Action Initiated) letter it had issued to the company on February 18. In a regulatory filing, … Read more

Indian pharma industry has come of age, says USFDA official

A senior official in the US Food and Drug Administration (USFDA) office in India has emphasised the importance of effective and timely communication from pharma companies in their engagement with the health regulator. Companies that had been issued Form 483, post an USFDA inspection, have to respond within 15 days. They can seek more time … Read more

Goyal moots meet on pharma industry issues

Goyal moots meet on pharma industry issues

  Union Minister of Commerce and Industry Piyush Goyal has proposed a meeting of the pharma industry to discuss issues that it faced and find solutions to them. “Sometime in the second week of March, I will get the pharma industry together to spend a day with me. Let’s dissect various issues plaguing the industry,” … Read more