All India Council of Technical Education (AICTE) has increased the number of student intake in the pharmacy colleges in the country from the existing eight to 18 students for M Pharm course and from 60 students to 120 students for B Pharm course.
The increase in students intake has been a long pending demand of the private pharmacy colleges in the country for the effective utilisation of available resources. As these colleges already have a well established infrastructure including a well qualified Principal, they will be in an advantageous position to impart quality education to the students. Several pharmacy college management associations, including the Andhra Pradesh Private Pharmacy Colleges Management Association (APPPCMA), have been representing to the AICTE in this regard for some time.
The pharmacy college management associations plead that the number of B Pharm pharmacy colleges in the country has increased considerably during the last few years. There are more than 800 pharmacy colleges in the country at present, which was around 300 a couple of years ago. With such an increase in the number of B Pharm colleges, these colleges alone require a large number of faculties with M Pharm degrees. Presently, these colleges are facing acute shortage of competent faculty to provide quality education. Besides, there are shortages of M Pharm students for the pharmacy business also.
In order to make these colleges financially viable to maintain Ph.D qualified faculty and also to give best scientific education to the students, the associations had asked the AICTE to consider to allow 18 students in the first year and 25 students by third year of the M Pharm course.
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