NEW DELHI : The Supreme Court is scheduled to take up on Wednesday a fresh plea seeking direction to the Centre and states to fix the maximum rate for the RT-PCR test to ₹300 uniformly all over India. A three-judge bench comprising Justices D.Y Chandrachud, L Nageswara Rao and S Ravindra Bhat will take up the plea which also seeks early refund of the additional amount charged for the COVID-19 test. Therefore RT-PCR test should not cost more than ₹300 which includes 100% profit to the private labs, it said. "There is no other cost as the machines used of RT-PCR tests are already there with the laboratories as they conduct a large number of tests. It alleged that the owner of the private laboratories and hospitals are using the calamity as an opportunity for minting "crores and crores of rupees".

Source: Mint June 29, 2021 14:26 UTC