Jan Aushadhi Kendras

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Under the Pradhan Mantri Bhartiya Janaushadhi Pariyojana (PMBJP) scheme, a total of 17,610 Jan Aushadhi Kendras (JAKs) have been opened across the country as on 30.11.2025, of which 277 JAKs have been opened in the State of Andhra Pradesh. The State-wise number of JAKs opened across the country and the district-wise number of JAKs opened in the State of Andhra Pradesh are at Annexure I.

The details of the funds allocated and utilised under the scheme during the last five years are as under:

S. No.	Financial year	Funds sanctioned (crore ₹)	Funds utilised (crore ₹)
1.	2020-21	65.00	65.00
2.	2021-22	68.50	68.50
3.	2022-23	100.00	100.00
4.	2023-24	110.00	110.00
5.	2024-25	284.50	182.73

There is no State-wise allocation of funds under the scheme.

Across the country, total sales of ₹ 6,290.23 crore MRP value have been made under the scheme during the last five financial years. State-wise and financial-year-wise sales at MRP value are at Annexure II.

Under the scheme, incentive to JAK owners is given at rate of 10% of monthly purchases, subject to a ceiling of ₹10,000 per month. In addition, JAK owners are also provided incentive of up to ₹10,000 per month for maintaining requisite stock of 200 high-demand products. Further, a one-time special incentive of ₹2 lakh for setting up JAK is given for JAKs opened in the North-Eastern States, Himalayan areas, island territories and backward areas notified as Aspirational Districts by NITI Aayog, and to those JAKs that are opened by entrepreneurs of certain eligible categories, including ex-servicemen, divyangjan and members of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.

With a view to further expand the coverage of the scheme, the Government has set a target to open 25,000 JAKs by March 2027. JAKs are opened by inviting applications from individual entrepreneurs, non-governmental organisations, societies, trusts, firms, private companies, etc. Online applications have been invited from all districts of the country, including those in the state of Andhra Pradesh, through the website www.janaushadhi.gov.in.

Annexure I

State-wise number of Jan Aushadhi Kendras opened across the country as on 30.11.2025

S. No.	State / Union territory	Number of JAKs opened
	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	9
	Andhra Pradesh	277
	Arunachal Pradesh	35
	Assam	175
	Bihar	993
	Chandigarh	19
	Chhattisgarh	339
	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	40
	Delhi	573
	Goa	22
	Gujarat	827
	Haryana	463
	Himachal Pradesh	74
	Jammu and Kashmir	348
	Jharkhand	164
	Karnataka	1543
	Kerala	1685
	Ladakh	2
	Lakshadweep	1
	Madhya Pradesh	597
	Maharashtra	723
	Manipur	66
	Meghalaya	27
	Mizoram	16
	Nagaland	22
	Odisha	788
	Puducherry	33
	Punjab	533
	Rajasthan	599
	Sikkim	14
	Tamil Nadu	1483
	Telangana	208
	Tripura	33
	Uttar Pradesh	3731
	Uttarakhand	336
	West Bengal	812
	Total	17,610

District-wise number of JAKs opened in the State of Andhra Pradesh as on 30.11.2025

S. No.	District	Number of JAKs
1	Alluri Sitharama Raju	3
2	Anakapalli	8
3	Ananthapuramu	13
4	Annamayya	7
5	Bapatla	9
6	Chittoor	12
7	Dr. B.R. Ambedkar Konaseema	9
8	East Godavari	14
9	Eluru	11
10	Guntur	24
11	Kakinada	5
12	Krishna	8
13	Kurnool	20
14	Nandyal	6
15	NTR	17
16	Palnadu	11
17	Parvathipuram Manyam	3
18	Prakasam	16
19	Sri Potti Sriramulu Nellore	6
20	Sri Sathya Sai	11
21	Srikakulam	9
22	Tirupati	15
23	Visakhapatnam	10
24	Vizianagaram	8
25	West Godavari	14
26	Y.S.R. Kodapa	8
Total		277

Annexure II

State-wise and financial-year-wise sales at MRP value (in crore ₹)

S. No.	State / Union territory	FY 2020-21	FY 2021-22	FY 2022-23	FY 2023-24	FY 2024-25
	Andaman and Nicobar Islands	0.02	0.05	0.06	0.01	0.0005
	Andhra Pradesh	1.53	1.41	1.77	1.80	0.55
	Arunachal Pradesh	0.68	0.24	0.50	0.43	0.48
	Assam	3.32	4.77	5.08	5.36	0.98
	Bihar	6.34	9.80	15.65	17.53	6.06
	Chandigarh	17.63	3.96	9.79	16.37	22.16
	Chhattisgarh	8.35	18.43	40.98	96.59	196.08
	Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu	0.00	0.010	0.0079	0.0009	0.0073
	Delhi	26.51	24.77	33.38	43.93	57.96
	Goa	0.00	0.00	0.05	0.07	0.15
	Gujarat	21.22	27.10	36.36	31.95	36.77
	Haryana	3.71	3.63	4.87	4.05	1.30
	Himachal Pradesh	1.88	6.28	8.13	7.42	7.47
	Jammu and Kashmir	14.51	22.52	41.08	52.00	61.95
	Jharkhand	14.79	36.56	69.50	90.38	142.40
	Karnataka	148.56	164.94	184.08	173.45	222.85
	Kerala	107.49	160.83	182.00	189.67	264.37
	Ladakh	0.00	0.04	0.18	0.00	0.00
	Lakshadweep	0.00	0.00	2.12	0.00	0.00
	Madhya Pradesh	7.23	6.79	6.50	5.85	2.64
	Maharashtra	8.35	12.65	12.59	17.50	26.54
	Manipur	0.55	4.14	8.27	6.87	9.53
	Meghalaya	0.13	1.54	1.58	1.62	0.99
	Mizoram	0.51	0.51	0.61	0.49	0.04
	Nagaland	0.29	0.32	0.59	0.84	0.15
	Odisha	26.30	31.17	34.81	36.31	33.85
	Puducherry	0.03	0.15	0.26	0.17	0.01
	Punjab	42.83	49.97	57.00	65.49	68.29
	Rajasthan	17.75	24.39	41.32	69.89	100.80
	Sikkim	0.00	0.001	0.00	0.00	0.04
	Tamil Nadu	51.48	81.93	123.71	141.45	180.35
	Telangana	1.48	2.46	1.74	1.82	0.28
	Tripura	1.87	2.53	2.85	3.17	1.96
	Uttar Pradesh	87.66	128.22	198.95	233.22	309.91
	Uttarakhand	14.65	19.41	33.59	46.25	89.37
	West Bengal	28.16	42.08	76.87	109.54	176.17

This information was given by Union Minister of State in the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Smt. Anupriya Patel, in a written reply in the Lok Sabha yesterday.