COIMBATORE: During his Independence Day address last year, Chief Minister M K Stalin announced that 1,000 pharmacies would be opened across the state under the Mudhalvar Marunthagam scheme from Pongal to sell generic medicines at affordable prices.
The launch has been delayed as officials are yet to complete scrutiny of applications and also due to issues in procurement of generic medicines, sources said.
The scheme would come under the registrar of cooperative societies under the cooperative department. Generic medicines would be procured by the Tamil Nadu Medical Services Corporation. Other medicines and equipment will be procured by the Tamil Nadu Cooperative Consumer Federation.
