PHARMA LITERATI

       The blanket ban by AICTE and Pharmacy Council Of India is not applicable to North East and states with less than 50 Pharmacy Institute. The to impose a moratorium was triggered primarily due to the unprecedented applications received by the councils for starting new pharmacy programmes during the academic session 2019-20. Several technical institutes and nursing colleges saw a dip in the admissions. the buildings of these institutes  were used to start pharmacy colleges.        Presently, more than 3000 Pharmacy colleges have enrolled more than 1 lakh students in undergraduate courses, which is adequate to meet the country's need to cater to the global health workforce, as per Dr. Suresh Bhojraj , President of  PCI .. As many as 1400 application were received in 2019-2020 to start new pharmacy colleges of which 842 were granted approvals, with maximum of 541 institutions in Uttar Pradesh . The conditional ban would avoid...

Following a direction from the Supreme Court of India, the regulators of pharmacy education in the country, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) and the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) have started joint inspections in institutions of pharmaceutical sciences from March 11 this year. The inspection procedure will continue up to April 25, sources informed. “This is for the first time the two education regulating bodies are conducting simultaneous inspections on the same day in same institutions after pharmacy education was started in India. Previously, the two teams were visiting on different dates, said Prof. Rituraj Bharadwaj, pharmacy professor at Assam Down Town University in Guwahati. Although the inspectors of both the agencies carry out simultaneous inspections in the same institution on same day, they do their survey and evaluation work separately on different parameters. Both the teams are following different guidelines also, authorities from colleges i...