Chairman of India's National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) Injeti Srinivas will be shifted out of the price regulatory body shortly.
Srinivas has been transferred as director general of the Sports Authority of India (SAI). He will continue to hold the post of chairman, NPPA on additional charge basis till the appointment of a new incumbent to the post or until further orders, whichever is earlier.
Injeti Srinivas is a graduate in Economics from Delhi University and Master in Business Administration from Strathclyde University, UK. He belongs to 1983 batch of IAS (Odisha Cadre). Srinivas has wide experience in Government of India as well as in Government of Odisha.
It is learnt that the transfer of chairman Injeti Srinivas was on account of a number of complaints from the industries he oversaw, pharmaceuticals and medical devices.