<p class="title">The government is planning to open 1,000 new 'Janaushadhi Kendras' across the country and is looking to cover all the districts by the end of 2019-20, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As on November 11 this year, 5,754 Janaushadhi Kendras are functional across the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The plan is to open 1,000 new Janaushadhi Kendras in FY 2019-20. It is also planned to cover all the districts of the country by the end of FY 2019-20," Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D V Sadananda Gowda said in a reply to the Lok Sabha.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) has covered 689 out of 725 districts of the country, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As on November 11, 2019, the product basket of PMBJP comprises 900 medicines and 154 surgical and consumables. The plan is to expand this basket to 1,200 medicines and 200 surgical/consumables by the end of 2019-20," Gowda said.</p>
<p class="title">The government is planning to open 1,000 new 'Janaushadhi Kendras' across the country and is looking to cover all the districts by the end of 2019-20, Parliament was informed on Tuesday.</p>.<p class="bodytext">As on November 11 this year, 5,754 Janaushadhi Kendras are functional across the country.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"The plan is to open 1,000 new Janaushadhi Kendras in FY 2019-20. It is also planned to cover all the districts of the country by the end of FY 2019-20," Minister of Chemicals and Fertilizers D V Sadananda Gowda said in a reply to the Lok Sabha.</p>.<p class="bodytext">Pradhan Mantri Bharatiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) has covered 689 out of 725 districts of the country, he added.</p>.<p class="bodytext">"As on November 11, 2019, the product basket of PMBJP comprises 900 medicines and 154 surgical and consumables. The plan is to expand this basket to 1,200 medicines and 200 surgical/consumables by the end of 2019-20," Gowda said.</p>