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Pharmacy education in India is still in its early stage regardless of how India was an innovator in wellbeing sciences in the old days. Anyway, the drug store instruction didn’t succeed that much when contrasted with PCs, and IT won and failed, yet the drug store industry of the sub mainland is running consistently and easily. The engine factor behind the running of the drug store schooling and industry is the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI). The council has been given the obligation by the public authority for solutions, guidelines and support of least instructive norms for the preparation of drug specialists consistently in the country. The gathering endorses the prospectus, standards and so forth for the establishments and guidelines for confirmation courses in drug stores and attempts enrollment of drug specialists.
The Pharmacy Council of India is constituted by the central government every five years. There are three types of members collectively form a frame of PCI
- Elected members
- Nominated members
- Ex-officio members
Objectives of PCI:
- To prescribe the minimum standard of education required for qualifying as a pharmacist, i.e. framing of Education Regulations prescribing the conditions to be fulfilled by the institutions seeking approval of the PCI for imparting education in pharmacy.
- To ensure uniform implementation of the educational standards throughout the country.
- To approve the courses of study and examination for pharmacists, i.e. approval of the academic training institutions providing pharmacy courses.
- To withdraw approval if the approved course of study or an approved examination does not continue to conform with the educational standards prescribed by the PCI.
- To approve qualifications granted outside the territories to which the Pharmacy Act extends, i.e. the approval of foreign qualifications.
- To maintain the Central Register of Pharmacists based on data forwarded by the State Pharmacy Councils.
- Regulation of the Pharmacy Education in the Country for registration as a pharmacist under the Pharmacy Act.
- Regulation of Profession and Practice of Pharmacy.
Functions and duties of PCI:
➤ To prescribe the minimum standard of education required for qualifying as a pharmacist. (Ref.: section 10 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ Framing of Education Regulations prescribing the conditions to be fulfilled by the institutions seeking approval of the PCI for imparting education in pharmacy. (Ref.: section 10 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ To ensure uniform implementation of the educational standards throughout the country. (Ref. : section 10 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ Inspection of Pharmacy Institutions seeking approval under the Pharmacy Act to verify availability of the prescribed norms. (Ref.: section 16 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ To approve the course of study and examination for pharmacists, i.e. approval of the academic training institutions providing pharmacy courses. (Ref. : section 12 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ To withdraw approval if the approved course of study or an approved examination does not continue to conform with the educational standards prescribed by the PCI. (Ref.: section 13 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ To approve qualifications granted outside the territories to which the Pharmacy Act extends, i.e. the approval of foreign qualifications. (Ref. : section 14 of the Pharmacy Act)
➤ To maintain the Central Register of Pharmacists. (Ref. : section 15 A of the Pharmacy Act)
The Central Register:-
(1) The Central Council shall maintain in the prescribed manner a register of pharmacists to be known as the Central Register, which shall contain the names of all persons for the time being entered in the register for a State.
(2) Each State Council shall supply to the Central Council five copies of the State register as soon as possible after the first day of April of each year. The Registrar of each State Council shall inform the Central Council, without delay, of all additions to, and other amendments in, the Register for the State made from time to time.
(3) It shall be the duty of the Registrar of the Central Council to keep the Central Register by the orders made by the Central Council and from time to time to revise the Central Register and publish it in the Gazette of India.
(4) The Central Register shall be deemed a public document within the Indian Evidence Act, 1872 (1 of 1872) and may be proved by producing a copy of the Register as published in the Gazette of India.
Conclusion:
The Pharmacy education and profession in India up to the graduate level is regulated by the PCI, a statutory body governed by the Pharmacy Act, 1948, passed by the Parliament. The PCI was constituted on 9.8.49 under section 3 of the Pharmacy Act.The Pharmacy act provided the profession of Pharmacy in India with a framework. It regulated and raised the status of the Pharmacy profession in the country. The Education imparted to individuals willing to enter this profession was standardized and made uniform. It helped the government achieve a certain level of control of the professionals engaged in this field.
