The Pharmacy Council of India has cracked the whip on seven pharmacy colleges in the state for admitting more students than permitted. With this, the one-upmanship between the All India Council for Technical Education and PCI over control of pharmacy colleges has taken a new turn.

The PCI has barred admissions to these colleges from the ensuing academic year 2012-13. The PCI has informed the state government that these colleges have violated the Education Regulation Act, 1999, by admitting more students than they were permitted and has asked the government to initiate action against them. It also asked the government not to include these colleges in Eamcet counselling next year.

The managements of these colleges claim that their intake is as approved by AICTE and that PCI’s diktat is unilateral and unjustified. They have urged the PCI to sort out the problem with AICTE. While PCI gives approval for 60 seats in a pharmacy college, AICTE has approved an intake of up to 200 seats. PCI’s contention is that AICTE has given indiscriminate approval to the increase in student intake without conducting proper inspections to see whether the infrastructure and faculty in the colleges is adequate.
Pharmacy Council of India has made it clear that it will not recognise the degrees awarded to students by colleges that gave admissions in excess of the number approved by PCI.

List of the colleges :
1) Sri Vasavi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, tadepalligudem,w.g dist
2) Bahadur venkatareddy pharmacy college, barkatpura,Hyderabad
3) S. R. College of Pharmacy, Hasanparthy, Warangal
4) Shadan college of pharmacy,hyderabad
5) Malla reddy institute of pharmaceutical sciences,hyderabad
6) K V Subba reddy college of pharmacy,Kurnool
7) Vignan college of pharmacy visakhapatnam

Source : DC