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Amrit Surolia

Jaipur

Pravin Maheshkar

Chittorgarh

Jaipur: A pharma companyis ready to supply imatinibtablets (generic) for just Rs654.84 per 30 tablets to thestate government, which willlater distribute it free of costto blood cancer patients, un-der the chief minister's freemedicine scheme launched in2011.

United Biotech's quota-tion was the lowest amongfour other companies thattook part in the tender.

It will be a major relief forblood cancer patients. Thegovernment's decision to pro-vide imatinib tablets free fol-lows the April 1 SupremeCourt decision to dismissSwiss drug maker NovartisAG's attempt to win patentprotection for its cancer drugGlivec (imatinib).

The cost of imatinib tab-

lets by Novartis is Rs 1.23 lakhper packet which contains 30tablets.

The state government willprovide free imatinib tablets,which are not branded but ge-neric for blood cancer (chron-ic myeloid leukemia) pa-tients, who require takingone tablet each day for the restof their life. The decision islife saving for around 6,000 to7,000 blood cancer patients.

The state government offi-cial said that due to high pric-es of medicines, not everyonecan afford these expensivetablets.

The Rajasthan MedicalServices Corporation(RMSC) invited the applica-tion through a tender processto procure imatinib medi-cines. Five companiesshowed interest in supplyingthe drug to the RMSC. For 30

tablest of 400 mg Cipla quotedRs 2548.62,

Naprod Life Science quot-ed Rs 1101.60, Glenmark Rs902.70, West Coast Pharma-ceutical Rs 883.39 and but itwas United Biotech, whichquoted the minimum price.

Formalities are yet to becompleted to procure themedicines, said RMSC offi-cials when contacted by TOIon Saturday

Govt Floated Tender To Procure Drug For Free Scheme

Pharma co to provide tabs forleukaemia at cheaper rate

TIMES NEWS NETWORK

Company nameRates quotedfor 30 tablets

United Biotech 654.84 West Coast Pharmaceutical

883.398

Glenmark 902.7

Naprod Life Science 1101.6

Cipla 2548.62

RATE QUOTE

Jaipur:While the police are in-vestigating whether there isany tax or custom duty evasionin the recovery case of 30 kggold from two men by Vid-hayakpuri police, the represen-tatives of a jewellers’ associ-ation claimed that it was legaland gold’s transportation waspart of a deal between two jew-ellers of Jodhpur and Jaipur.

According to the police, thetwo men, Shravan Kumar andAgar Singh who were arrestedfrom Dhuleshwar Garden onSaturday midnight with pos-session of gold had also deliver-ed 60 kg of gold and 124.5 kg ofsilver to a Sirohi-based man onFriday afternoon.

This delivery had also beentaken from Brinks Arya IndiaPrivate Limited. The policesaid that apart from investiga-tion in the recovery of 30 kg ofgold after Saturday midnight,they have launched a probe in-to the delivery of 60 kg gold and124.5 kg silver also.

Kailash Mittal, a represen-tative of a jewellers’ associ-ation said that Dwarka Jewell-ers of Jodhpur had bought thegold from Lawat Jewellers sit-uated on MI Road throughBrinks Arya India Private Lim-ited. “In such a deal, the money

son who receives gold’s deliv-ery. “It is between the two jew-ellers who make the deal,” saidMittal. He added that the policerounded up the two men anddid not allow them to informatheir employer.

the gold is handed over to therepresentatives of the jewellerwho is purchasing the gold,”said Mittal.

He said that Brinks Arya In-dia Private Limited does notgive bills or vouchers to the per-

is deposited in a bank. Whenthe money is deposited, thebank sends a delivery order toBrinks Arya India Private Lim-ited. After Brinks Arya IndiaPrivate Limited receives thedelivery order from the bank,

Deal was legal, say jewellersTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Jaipur: The Citizen Call Centre(CCC) meant for the people toavail information on govern-ment-run services, schemes andfiling grievances will kick startfrom mid June in the state. Themobile-based governance sys-tem will have a common numberconnecting all the governmentdepartments with it.

The department of informa-tion and technology is in its finalleg of developing the necessaryinfrastructure for the call cen-tre. Several rounds of meetingsand consultations with all theconcerned departments havebeen completed. “We are expect-ing to launch the services by theJune and will be rolled out in twophases. The first phase will havethe facility of receiving publicgrievances and its redressal. Infuture we will integrate the sys-tem with many other facilitieslike e-district, e-mitra etc,” saidG K Sharma, deputy director, ITdepartment.

Under the system any citizencan reach out to call centrethrough phone, SMS and email.The personnel at the CCC, for thefirst time will create a master da-ta of the applicant which will belinked with the caller’s numberand email. As soon as the com-plaint gets registered it will beforwarded to the concerned au-

thority of each department.Each complaint will have a spe-cific deadline and it will be man-datory for the officials to redressthose complaints in a particulartime frame.

Once the complaint is ad-dressed, a message or a call willbe made to the complainant in-forming him about the status.Employees at the call centre willalso take the feedback and if thecomplainant is not satisfied itwill be forwarded to higher au-thorities. TNN

Citizen Call Centre to beoperational from mid-June

Jaipur: Alluding to the in-famous Delhi gangrape in-cident of December lastyear, Supreme Court judgeJustice G S Singhvi on Sat-urday said such crimeswould continue to happenunless efforts were made tochange the society’s mind-set.

Justice Singhvi empha-sised that the changeshould begin from home bychecking discriminationagainst the girl child.

The Supreme Courtjudge was speaking at astate-level conference on“women empowerment:role of legal services” orga-nised here by the RajasthanState Legal Services Au-thority. The apex court’sJustice P Sathasivam, whowas chief guest at the event,praised national rural em-ployment guaranteescheme for being the firstinitiative to ensure equal

pay for man and woman,thereby enforcing socialequality through law.

Justice Sathasivam re-minded the judicial officersattending the conferencethat there was provision inthe law to decide rape caseswithin six months evenwhile ensuring the right tofair trial to both the parties.

Chief Justice of Rajas-than high court AmitavaRoy said that for empower-

ment of women it was im-portant that they be givenmore opportunities.

Justice Singhvi men-tioned that the Rajasthanhigh court has four womenjudges and they can go along way in enforcing socialequality in the state. Refer-ring to former PM late Indi-ra Gandhi, Justice Singhvisaid the country failed toevaluate her contributionto social equality.

‘Check discriminationagainst girl child at home’

Jaipur: An 18-year-old girl alleg-edly committed suicide by hang-ing herself in her rented accom-modation in Pratap Nagar onSaturday morning.

Police said that the girl’s par-ents who are labourers had goneto work when the incident tookplace. The girl was to get marriednext month.

According to the police, thegirl, Puja Kumari, was a residentof Mohanpura in Bassi area andwas staying with her parents inPratap Nagar.

“Some neighbours spotted thegirl hanging from the ceiling. Shewas alive when spotted, but diedon the way to hospital,” said a po-lice officer.

The officer said that an inves-tigation has been launched intothe matter. “She was to get mar-ried next month. Family mem-bers say that she was happy anddid not seem depressed over any-thing,” said the officer.

18-yr-old girlhangs self

before weddingTIMES NEWS NETWORK

The RajasthanMedical ServicesCorporation (RMSC)invited theapplication through atender process toprocure imatinibmedicines for its freedrug scheme

Supreme court judges Justice G S Singhvi and Justice P Sathasi-vam (centre) during a conference on women empowerment inthe city on Saturday

Arvind SharmaTIMES NEWS NETWORK

Jaipur: “SHO, Vidhayakpuri Rajendra Di-wakar along with a police team was onnight patrolling when he spotted these menwaiting for a bus near Dhuleshwar Gardenon Ajmer Road. They looked suspicious andgot scared after seeing the police vehicle,”said Gupta. The officer said the duo wasfrisked and the police was shocked to recov-er the gold biscuits. The policemen alsofound Rs 73,000 cash from them.

“During interrogation it came up thatthe gold was being taken to Jodhpur. Jodh-pur-based Dwarka jewelers had bought thegold from Lawat Jewellers situated at MIRoad. The gold’s delivery was given by theBrinks Arya India Private Limited,” saidGupta.

The officer said there were several ir-regularities in the deal. “The gold deliveryin such huge quantities should not be doneat this hour, but it has come up that thestock company employees provided thegold to the duo after midnight. The MI Road-

based jeweler should have given bills andvouchers to the two men if the deal was le-gal,” said the officer.

He added that we also suspected them asthey were not escorted by armed guards de-spite carrying 30kg gold with them.

“Since hike in the import and excise du-ties on gold, the cases of gold smugglinghave increased. It also seems to be an at-tempt of evading taxes and duties, howeverbut investigation is on,” Gupta added.

`̀73k cash seized from duo�Continued from P1

Seized packets of gold bars at Vidhayakpuri police station

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