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The inauguration of one store in Pilibhit was under the same drive.” These medicines will have the same quality as that of the branded medicines, but will be sold at much lesser price.”Dr Chaturvedi said, “During a video conferencing held on Friday by principal secretary, health, Prashant Trivedi, the district level medical officers were informed about the opening of 100 jan aushadhi kendras across the state on Sunday. Pilibhit: District magistrate Akhilesh Kumar Mishra on Sunday inaugurated Pilibhit’s first jan aushadhi kendra on the district government hospital campus here.The centre came up under the Union government’s Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhiy Pariyojana (PMBJP) with an aim to make quality medicines available to patients at cheaper rates.The medical centre, which will function in accordance with the norms as specified in scheme, will maintain the stock of around 600 generic medicines of various kinds, including the lifesaving drugs.Giving information, additional chief medical officer Dr CM Chaturvedi said, “Generic medicines will be unbranded and come with names of pharmaceutical salts, manufacturing and expiry dates and retail price..