Faculty Of Pharmacy

Pharmacy Profession is one of the integral components of Healthcare Profession along with Medical, Dental, Physiotherapy and Nursing Profession. No healthcare is complete without treatment with drugs where pharmacist plays an important role.

Origin of the profession: The History of Pharmacy education in India dates back to 1932, when a two year Degree Course in Pharmaceutical Chemistry for B.Sc., marked the beginning of pharmacy education at Banaras Hindu University by Prof. Mahadev Lal Schroff, who is also known as Father of Pharmacy Education in India. The first B. Pharmacy Course approved by Pharmacy Council of India at Birla College, Pilani in 1954.

From the days of Sushruta to present time in 2020, pharmacy profession has come a long way & grown by leaps and bounds. For the growth of any country, “health” of the people in the country is very important & people should have access to quality medicines at affordable prices.

Drugs & Cosmetics Act of 1940 is considered as a landmark in the annals of pharmacy profession since it ensures that quality medicines are available to people. Today, the pharmacy profession is one of the most important & thriving professions in this country which is growing at 12% per annum.

India is the largest manufacturers & suppliers of generic medicines & is ranked number one in this category. India caters to around 40% requirement of medicines across the world. It is ranked 14th in terms of value and 3rd in terms of volume in the world.

India boasts of excellent state of the art manufacturing facilities in the pharmaceutical industries. Around 40% of the pharmaceutical industries are approved by WHO, USFDA, TGA Australia, MHR UK & ANVISA Brazil. Indian Pharmaceutical Sector exports drugs throughout the world and caters to most of population of the world.

Indian Pharmaceutical industry is highly regulated industry which is continuously evolving & changing. API’s, intermediates, conventional dosage forms like tablets, capsules, ophthalmic, aerosols, liquid orals are manufactured in pharmaceutical industries pan India which fall in categories like multinational companies, large scale manufacturing units, small scale manufacturing units.

Apart from this, India is a manufacturing hub for medical devices, novel drug delivery systems like liposomes, niosomes, solid lipid nanoparticles, transmucosal drug delivery systems, implants etc. Any pharmaceutical industry in India is at par with the best pharmaceutical industries in the world.

We at Faculty of Pharmacy, consider our bound duty & responsibility to produce pharmacy graduates who will be tailor-made to meet stringent requirements of pharmaceutical industry, competent health care professionals.

We consider ourselves a privileged lot to have been chosen or given the responsibility to mould quality healthcare professionals the torch bearers of the pharmacy profession into the next country.

LONG LIVE THE PHARMACY PROFESSION & THE PHARMACIST!