Member of Pharmacy Council of India, Virendra Singh Panwar, said that the outline of education regulations for the syllabus of diploma pharmacy has been prepared and after the required formalities of the Government, may be implemented in the country in the year 2014.
Panwar said that the Pharmacy Council of India prepared syllabus of diploma, graduate and research scholars and every 10 years the syllabus is revised. The present revision of syllabus is being conducted after 1991. The council has decided that September 25 will be celebrated as Pharmacists day.
After returning from the PCI meeting held in New Delhi, Panwar said that the revision of the syllabus of pharmacy has been prepared and all formalities have been completed. The education regulations for the rest of the course will be ready by the end of the year.
The pharmacists were raising the demand for revision of these regulations. Panwar said that the regulations are prepared according to present and future requirements. Every effort has been made to include the new subjects and new techniques in the syllabus.
He expressed hope that the developments will help pharmacists perform their work with full devotion by using the concept of new techniques to serve public in the field of medicine.