New Delhi, Oct. 24 -- The centre has set up a Committee to examine the regulatory framework governing pharmaceutical marketing practices. The Committee is supposed to submit the report within a period of two months after the first meeting.

According to the order issued, the three-member committee will be headed by Dr. M. Sirinivas, Member, NITI Aayog, Preeti Sudan, Former Union Health Secretary, and Dr. Naresh Trehan, CMD, Medanta Hospitals.

"The committee shall furnish its recommendations to the Department of Pharmaceuticals within a period of two months from the date of its first meeting, after undertaking the requisite consultative process and duly considering the material and suggestions placed before it," the order reads.

However,...