Himachal Pradesh has become the third State in the country to launch Xtended licensing Node (XlN) for filing online applications and issuing drug licences and online food licencing and registration system.
launching it, Chief Minister Virbhadra Singh on Wednesday said that Xtended licensing Node system was e-governance friendly which would bring more transparency and efficiency in the drug licensing procedure.
He said that under the system physical file movement from field to head office and correspondence between department and stakeholders would be stopped besides acceptance of applications and license delivery mechanism had been decentralized to the district offices.
Singh said that under the system, the licencee would get SMS on his registered mobile number when the application would be marked to drugs inspector for the inspection till the entire process of getting license.
Besides, maintaining of drug register would become more easy and duplication of the name of registered pharmacists could be checked.
"This software would also be used to link up with Composite Testing laboratory, Kandaghat thereby providing the seamless interface with drug testing facilities," he said.
Singh added that the system was citizen centric as they could easily locate particular chemist shops having life saving drugs and they can also locate availability of a particular blood group/component at any nearest blood bank.
Besides, the general public could also get information about standard and drug samples for life saving drugs of manufactured alongwith batch number.