Pharma colleges in a tizzy as statutory bodies issue contradictory admission rules in Maharashtra
Two statutory medical bodies have
published different rules for admission into M. Pharm (The Master of Sciences
of Pharmacy), causing confusion among the 156 pharmacy colleges across the
state, 20 of which are in Mumbai. The Central
government's new regulations state that the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI)
will now govern admission into the two year M. Pharm course. However, the rules of
the All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE), which previously
governed this course, continue to exist.
The lack of clarity and the
contradictory information issued by both bodies has befuddled colleges.
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PCI
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AICTE
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Students intake in the institute
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PCI says each college can take only
15 students.
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AICTE says that each college can take
in 18 to 36 students.
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Student to teacher ratio
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The PCI has said that there ought to
be one teacher for every 3 students
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AICTE says there should be one
teacher for every 12 students
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PCI has instructed the colleges to
approach them for registration by 29 February, and told them that the PCI
will video-record the facilities and infrastructure of the college, before
approving its registration. The colleges have also been told that if they
fail to register with the PCI, they will not be accommodated into the
admission process by the Directorate of Technical Education (DTE), who are
co-ordinating the process.
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Colleges were told they could apply
to the AICTE online by 22 February
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Dr MN Saraf, principal of Bombay
College of Pharmacy told Mumbai Mirror, "We have received the new PCI
norms and are trying to understand how to deal with the norms of both statutory
bodies. We recently met with the DTE to try to bring some clarity to this
matter." The PCI is also trying to solve the confusion. A member of
Executive council of the PCI said, "We hope that there will be more
clarity on these differences soon. The representatives of the PCI and AICTE
recently met. We're going to meet again to discuss the issue in greater detail."
Source: http://www.mumbaimirror.com/mumbai/others/Pharma-colleges-in-a-tizzy-as-statutory-bodies-issue-contradictory-admission-rules/articleshow/50953741.cms
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