The National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA), in collaboration with the Karnataka State Drug Control Department, has launched the Price Monitoring and Resource Unit in the state.
The main objective of the PMRU is to help the NPPA in monitoring the prices of drugs and also the availability of such drugs in the state.
NPPA is Constituted in 1997 and it is a government regulatory agency that controls the prices of pharma drugs in the country.