Dated : 15th May, 2007

The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India has introduced online voluntary E-filing system for the applicant pharmaceutical companies to send their applications to NPPA for approval or revision of price of Scheduled Drug Formulations and the price list under Form-III, Form-IV and Form-V of Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 1995.

1 CIRCULAR ISSUE TO ALL ASSOCIATION

F.No. 21(47)/2006 – DivIII/NPPA

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority

Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers

Government of India

Ph: 23345116, 23345118 & 23345122

Fax: 23345119

Website:https://www.nppaindia.nic.in/en/

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Dated : 15.05.2007

Circular

To,

IDMA/IPA/OPPI/Manufacturers/ Importer/Marketing Company/Distributors 

The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India has introduced online voluntary E-filing system for the applicant pharmaceutical companies to send their applications to NPPA for approval or revision of price of Scheduled Drug Formulations and the price list under Form-III, Form-IV and Form-V of Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 1995.

Implementation of the system is a step forward in various e-governance initiatives taken up by NPPA. The online e-filing would facilitate NPPA in compiling applications at a faster pace for efficient delivery of service.

All applicant companies may note that the online e-filing system would be available in addition to the manual filing under DPCO’95.

All pharmaceutical associations are requested to inform all their members in this respect.

L.M. Kaushal

Director (M&E)

2. INTRODUCTION TO E-FILING SYSTEM

National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority

Department of Chemicals & Petrochemicals

Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers

Government of India

Introduction to e-filing system

 The National Pharmaceuticals Pricing Authority (NPPA), Department of Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India has introduced voluntary online E-filing system for the applicant pharmaceutical companies to send their applications to NPPA for approval or revision of price of Scheduled Drug Formulations and the price list under Form-III, Form-IV and Form-V of Drug Price Control Order (DPCO) 1995.

Implementation of the system is a step forward in various e-governance initiatives taken up by NPPA. The online e-filing would facilitate NPPA in compiling the applications at faster pace for efficient delivery of service.

All applicant companies may note that the online e-filing system would be available in addition to the manual filing under DPCO’95.

Pre-requisite for E-filing

E-filing system may be accessed over Internet using Internet Explorer version 4.0 or above from any windows based computer.

Instructions for e-filing Form-III, Form-IV and Form-V

• No fields can be left blank
• Form can be modified as many times until Final submission is done
• When the filled in form is submitted for the first time, system provides a unique form number to the applicant for carrying out any modification and in taking print out of the information filled in.
• Applicants may take the printout as many times to ensure correctness of details
• Modifications may be carried out using the Edit option
• Once all modifications are done unto the satisfaction, applicants may finalise the form by clicking on Final Submission. Please note that no correction could be done once the form is marked as final
• Applicants are required to take the Final print, which will bear the Form number
• This Number can be used for future correspondence with NPPA
• This print out is required to be sent to NPPA by post along with the required supporting documents
• Duly signed application should reach NPPA within one month of making final submission on e-filing. After one month, if the hard copy of the application bearing the unique form number does not reach NPPA, the e-filed data would be automatically deleted from the database. And fresh application needed to be filed again.