CIPMMA spreads its wings to northern and eastern parts of India

Chennai, October 27, 2021:

With special attention on marketing career in the domain of pharma trade, the Trichy headquartered pharmaceutical marketers’ body, the Consortium of Indian Pharmaceutical Marketers and Manufacturers Association (CIPMMA) has now spread its wings to north India with setting up of four zonal committees in Maharashtra and one in Madhya Pradesh. Bhubaneswar zone in Odisha is on the anvil.

The state unit of the Consortium in Maharashtra, the most industrialized state in the country, will be formed early next year after the formal inauguration of four zonal committees which are progressing.

The first zonal committee in Maharashtra was formed in Nashik on October 24 and the three other zones, Pune, Nagpur and Mumbai are in the pipeline, according to Narendra Aher, joint secretary of the Nashik zonal committee. Later, committees will be formed in all the 35 districts, he said.

In the inaugural function of the Nashik zone meeting, national coordinator of the CIPMMA, Panneer Selvam from Trichy attended and delivered details about the association and the need to strengthen pharma marketing business in Maharashtra. He said the marketing business of pharmaceutical products will open up a wide range of career possibilities for the pharmacy graduates in the country. He wanted the pharmacy qualified people of Maharashtra to undertake marketing business as a profession without waiting for opportunities in the pharmacy field. According to him, educated persons with a pharmacy background in pharma marketing will bring a good shape to the career of medicine business.

While briefing Pharmabiz about the formation of CIPMMA in Nashik, Narendra Aher said the first general body was held at Hotel Surya and 33 marketers from different parts of the state attended it. The meeting was inaugurated by the founder member of CIPMMA, Panneer Selvam who was welcomed by Manish Oberoi. The general body elected office-bearers and five-member executive committee for Nashik zone.

The joint secretary said, the president of Nashik CIPMMA is Sanjay Pingale. Manish Oberoi and Ajay Patil are secretary and treasurer of the association respectively. The EC members are Sanjiv Singh, Mahesh Ahire, Rajesh Akkar, Rajendra Madal and Shrirang Deogaonkar.

A representative who attended from Madhya Pradesh has been assigned to work out on the formation of the state unit. A zonal committee has already been formed in MP, said Panneer Selvam. He highlighted one thing that the Nashik zonal committee was the first unit of CIPMMA formed out of Tamil Nadu although some attempts were made earlier to make units in Kerala and Andhra Pradesh.

Later while speaking to Pharmabiz, Karunai Kadal, president of CIPMMA, has said marketers from Odisha have contacted him for affiliation and Bhubaneswar zonal committee will be formed in November second week. He said the association will reiterate its earlier demand for a separate licensing system for pharmaceutical marketers. In May 2011, CIPMMA’s general body held in Trichy passed a resolution in this regard and it was forwarded to the union government for consideration. The demand will be raised further and a second resolution will be passed in the upcoming AGM of the marketers’ body.

According to Karunai Kadal, they make the demand for separate licenses from the government because they are neither distributors nor retailers. They market only their own products. The production and supply chain of their products are under their own control, and they do not market other companies’ products, he said by adding that the state drug control director, M Sivabalan will be felicitated in the next AGM as he is going to retire on June 30, 2022. PharmaBiz