The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) is said to have
blacklisted 37 colleges in the State for making excess admissions in
violation of the PCI norms and with the pretext that the AICTE has
permitted them so.
The PCI central council meeting
held in New Delhi recently is said to have taken the decision as some
colleges have admitted 200 students though the original sanctioned
strength is only 60. As per the PCI norms, the maximum strength can go
up to 100 if the colleges are more than four years old while it has to
be 60 for colleges established in the last four years.
K.
Ramdass, general secretary of the A.P. Pharmacy Colleges Association,
has said that PCI president B. Suresh will be meeting Chief Minister N.
Kiran Kumar Reddy on May 9 along with the managements of pharmacy
colleges to discuss the issue of excess admissions. He is also likely to
discuss other issues with regard to pharmacy education in the State.
The
PCI and AICTE have been at loggerheads over the authority on pharmacy
education in the country. While the PCI claims that it should decide on
admissions and administrative aspects of pharmacy education, the AICTE
maintains that it has the authority to sanction additional seats in the
existing colleges apart from sanctioning new colleges.
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