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FMRAI-August Rs.3 Vol. XIII No. 1 KOLKATA FMRAI NEWS 1 AUGUST 2013 Organ of Federation of Medical And Sales Representatives’ Associations of India 60-A Charu Avenue • Kolkata-700 033 • Phone : (033)24242862 • Fax : (033)24244943 • www.fmrai.org • E-mail : [email protected] Fight MNC Penetration Remove Tax on NLEM The working committee meeting of FMRAI, held at Nagpur on 19-20 July, decided to observe countrywide Protest Day On Labour on 23 August against increasing multinational penetration in Indian market; for price control on all medicines and for Related removal of all taxes from the medicines in the National List of Essential Medicines (NLEM). Demands It is now clear that drug MNCs are coming to grab Indian pharma market replacing Indian sector by acquisition or forcing out. The MNCs are imposing conditionalities on of SPEs the Government who is in deseparation for In the tripartite preparatory meeting, FDI to meet current account deficit. called by the Union Labour Ministry on 28 The MNCs penetration with June, despite it was decided that within a Governmental policy support and actions are month's time the Industrial Tripartite also completely destabilizing Indian pharma Committee for the Sales Promotion market preparing ground for establishing Employees will be constituted; the Central monopolized patented medicines of MNCs. government has not constituted the same In the process the medical representatives' so far. FMRAI, in the meantime received job security and their unrestricted right to work the minutes of the said meeting. are also facing serious threats. During the meeting FMRAI submitted The government has prepared NLEM as 9 point demands which include effective per Supreme Court's direction, but let the Working Committee Meeting at Nagpur enforcement of SPE Act and the Rules price fixation decided by the market in under it and amendment of the Section 9 complete departure from earlier DPCO. For of the highest taxed commodities. It is one all medicines, but also demanded of the SPE Act to incorporate imprisonment NLEM, the NPPA has been deciding about commodity on which central government removal of all taxes on NLEM. It is in this as penalty and higher penalty for the price on market study and then issuing collects excise duty not on cost of background, working committee decided subsequent offences with its monitoring circular with lot of arbitrary decisions. production but on retail sale price. to undertake massive public campaign, mechanism and suspension of sales Simultaneously, the government has cut the Therefore, 8% excise duty across the independently and along with others, to promotion till compliance of law; the threat commissions for the wholesalers and board has become meaningless in the observe all India Protest Week during 16- of job security of sales promotion retailers in the name of providing relief to the light of excise duty collection on MRP. 22 August and observe Protest Day on employees due to arbitrary orders of both people. However, one is condemnable is the In addition, VAT is collected on NLEM 23 August; pursue with concern ministry Central and State Government Health / fact that government kept high taxation even items. Therefore FMRAI's working of the Central government the other Administrative authorities; notification of on essential medicines to meet government's committee not only demanded reverting demands; and followed by national sales promotion employees and fixation own fiscal deficits. Medicine has become one back to DPCO 1979 for price control on convention in November - December. See page-2 Lightning Strike in Alembic Homage Complete Paralyzation Comrade Samar Mukherjee Comrade Samar Struggle (NCCRS). He led many of Field Work Mukherjee's 100 years long struggles for the hapless submitted memoranda to the journey came to an end when uprooted people due to partition company and held gate meetings he breathed his last on 18 July on attaining country's in front of company's 2013. independence. Comrade Samar establishments at state capitals. Completely dedicated to Mukherjee was also easily Preliminary reports say that working class cause and firmly approachable to even ordinary 1740 out of total around 2000 field committed to revolutionary workers and the suffering people workers working in 14 divisions of ideology, Comrade Samar and had personal contact in the company resorted to flash Mukherjee lived a spartan life different parts of the country. strike within a short notice of five remaining bachelor, living in Party Comrade Samar Mukherjee had days. Thousands of organised field commune. He joined the national freedom personal long association with FMRAI and workers held gate meetings before movement when he was a student. He guided it since the day he addressed joined the communist party in 1940. He FMRAI's first rally in front of the Parliament Gate meeting at Kolkata company's offices / C&Fs at Patna, Ranchi, Cuttack, Guwahati, spent underground and jail life before and at Boat Club in 1973. He flagged off 'FMRAI In the midst of ongoing movement in pursuance Kolkata, Jaipur, Lucknow, Indore, after India's independence. Express' for the Mumbai rally in 1997. of their trade union and collective bargaining rights; Raipur, Nagpur, Pune, Chennai, By sheer dedication and hard work FMRAI pays respectful homage to the seething anger of Alembic field workers Hyderabad, Vijayawada, Comrade Samar Mukherjee reached to the Comrade Samar Mukherjee and takes exploded when they heard that the management Trivandrum, Ernakulam and highest positions - Polit Bureau Member of pledge to carry forward his ideals and illegally transfered their all India convener to a distant Bangalore and at least in 165 cities CPI(M), leader of CPI(M)'s Parliamentary actions for the cause of the working class place and 85% of company's field workers resorted and towns, FMRAI's local units with group in Lok Sabha and Rajya Sabha, and and other toiling and suffering sections and to a day's lightning strike on 26 July completely Alembic field workers met the the General Secretary of CITU. He was one vision of democratic India. paralyzing company's sales promotion activities all stockists and submitted of the founders of CITU. He played a FMRAI dips its flag in respectful over the country. Striking workers and organised field memoranda. leading role in the historic railway workers' memory of Comrade Samar Mukherjee. force jointly staged demonstrations at medicine In the meantime, on the dispute strike in 1974 as a leader of National Long live Comrade Samar markets and met local stockists and through them See page-2 Coordination Committee of Railwaymen's Mukherjee! AUGUST 2013 FMRAI NEWS FMRAI NEWS Council Sub Committee Meetings z AUGUST 2013 z Further to the news published in FMRAI News, July, 2013, state council Resist the Growing sub-committee meetings were held in Maharashtra and Punjab - Chandigarh Multinationals Penetration subsequently. National working committee meeting of FMRAI, held at Nagpur on 19-20 MSMRA July, decided to observe countrywide Protest Day on 23 August against 140 council leaders from 33 increasing market monopolization by the multinational drug cartel to impose councils of MSMRA attended state patent regime through back door; against Central government's appeasement council subcommittee meeting at policy towards these MNCs subjugating country's sovereignty and self-reliance Mumbai on 7 July. FMRAI's joint in pharma sector; against high rise of medicine prices and against resulting general secretary Deepak threat to job security and unrestricted right to work of the sales promotion Bhattcharjee inaugurated the employees. meeting. He dealt with the history Ongoing world economic crisis beginning in late 2007 resulting market of council movement of FMRAI and narrated the challenges contraction in Europe, America and other industrially developed countries before the organization in combined with government's austerity measures particularly in healthcare reversing the restructuring sector and an estimated $230-billion patented drugs (which they call 'brands') policies of the industry. He going out of patents in US by 2015; pharma drug MNCs became desperate emphasised on council net in search of newer markets, specially in India, and are, therefore, eyeing the working and the role of the state Indian pharma market to sell their off patented drugs (which they call 'generics') council subcommittee in carrying and trying to block Indian drug companies who exports medicines to West. the decisions of all India council sub-committee up to the sub unit And Manmohan Singh led UPA II, acting at the behest of these MNCs, is MSMRA state council subcommittee meeting trying to bail out them by opening almost all sectors inviting FDI. Since April level. State council subcommittee convener Saleem Patel council and its related movements Nalawade presided over the 2000, US $10.3 billion FDI has come into the pharmaceuticals sector alone, presented the note explaining the in line with FMRAI's programmes meeting. nearly 5 per cent of the total foreign inflows the country has received through importance of the functioning of and decided to conduct sub unit acquisition route, which neither contributed in increasing production nor created sub unit council subcommittees level meetings throughout the PCMSRU additional employment (in case of Adcock Ingram, retrenched workers). Despite and company wise councils. The state on 21 July and 4 August in 21 conveners and joint these, commerce and industry minister Anand Sharma and finance minister P. note was discussed by the presence of state council core conveners of different councils Chidambaram travelled to the US in the past weeks to pitch for investments. participants divided into 7 groups committee members. FMRAI's attended the state council sub- Discussion is on and the Government is also expected to further liberalize the and their opinions were placed in joint general secretary K B committee meeting on 7 July at FDI regime in sectors such as telecom and defence.
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