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Pharmacy council bans new colleges for five years

CHANDIGARH: Putting a break on mushrooming of pharmacy colleges in the country and taking into consideration the availability of sufficient qualified pharmacist workforce, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), New Delhi, has unanimously decided to put a ban of five years for opening a new pharmacy college.

Chandigarh, July 21

Putting a break on mushrooming of pharmacy colleges in the country and taking into consideration the availability of sufficient qualified pharmacist workforce, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI), New Delhi, has unanimously decided to put a ban of five years for opening a new pharmacy college.

Dr Anshu Kataria of the Aryans College of Pharmacy said the PCI through its notification has said there are 1,985 D Pharm and 1,439 B Pharm institutes in the country. The annual intake of students in these institutes is 2,19,279 and this available workforce is enough to meet the current pharmacist to population needs of the country. — TNS

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