The Pharmaceutical Export Promotion Council of India (Pharmexcil) has
created a new post of Director General (DG) and appointed Dr P V Appaji
as the new DG of the Council. Prior to this appointment, Dr Appaji had
served as Executive Director (ED) of the Council for the past 8 years
since 2004.
Raghuveer Kini has been appointed as the next
Executive Director of the council. Earlier, Kini had served the council
in the capacity of additional executive director since its inception. He
is regarded as a well experienced and dynamic personality who is fully
aware of all the activities of the Council.
Earlier, the Council
did not have the Director General post, but as part of its internal
review, the administration had decided to create the new post to forgo
the growing work pressure on the ED. At the same time, it had also
decided to honour the exemplary services of Dr Appaji and promote him to
the next higher level as the DG.
The new DG will now focus his
concentration on the policy matters of the council. Apart from devising
policies for pharmaceutical export promotion, the DG will also supervise
the over all functioning of the council. “Now, my job will be to focus
more on policy matters. In the next one to two months we will organize a
meeting and come out with a new frame work for our export activities,”
said Dr Appaji.
On the upcoming activities of the council, Dr
Appaji said, “As of now we are concentrating on organizing India
Pavilion at 15th South East Asia Healthcare & Pharma Show in
Malaysia. The event will be held from April 17-19, 2012. Apart from
this, we are also attending the interactive meeting with duty drawback
committee which is going to be held on April 12. We will put forth our
views and suggestions to the committee,” said the new DG.
Since
inception in 2003 the Council had been striving hard to promote the
Indian pharmaceutical sector to the world markets. In its endeavour it
had organized many national and international events, seminars and
exhibitions. It had facilitated networking with world’s leading players
to the Indian manufactures and had played a catalytic role in framing
viable export policies and helped the government to understand industry
point of view in resolving various issues pertaining to export
regulations.
