The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) issued resolutions in July and September 2019 imposing a five‑year moratorium on the establishment of new pharmacy colleges, later exempting government institutions, the North‑Eastern region and states with fewer than 50 pharmacy institutes. Several private …
The appellants were appointed as teachers in the Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences of H.N.B. Garhwal University between 2004 and 2007 under the Uttar Pradesh State Universities Act, 1973. Their appointment letters imposed a three‑year contractual term, which they protested but continued to …
The petitioners, a group of pharmacy colleges, filed writ petitions under Article 32 seeking directions to Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University to grant them conditional affiliation for the academic year 2020‑21 and to allow their B.Pharm students to appear in special examinations. The …
The petitioners, two pharmacy colleges, obtained approval from the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) in April 2020 to run first‑year B.Pharm courses for 2020‑21. The Uttar Pradesh government later issued a policy limiting pharmacy colleges to two per district, which the petitioners successfully …
The Supreme Court examined a batch of petitions challenging the approval of increased intake and second‑shift courses in pharmacy colleges approved by AICTE but rejected by the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI). The core issue was whether the Pharmacy Act, 1948 (a special statute) or the All India …
The case concerned the applicability of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 to the newly created State of Jharkhand after the Bihar Reorganisation Act, 2000. The petitioners challenged a Jharkhand Government notification that sought fresh registration of pharmacists under Section 31 of the Act, arguing that the …
The Pharmacy Council of India challenged the constitution of a Registration Tribunal by the newly formed State of Chhattisgarh under Section 30 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948, which was intended to prepare a new First Register of pharmacists and to renew registrations of pharmacists already listed in the …
Rajendra Prasad Bagaria obtained registration as a pharmacist in Rajasthan on the basis of a registration he had earlier obtained in Sikkim, where he had worked only for two months. The Rajasthan Pharmacy Council, after receiving complaints about ineligible pharmacists, examined his registration and …
The petitioners, appointed as Pharmacists Grade‑B in the Northern Railway Central Hospital, were placed in the higher pay scale of Rs 330‑560 despite being qualified only under clause (d) of Section 31 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948, which entitled them to the lower scale of Rs 330‑480. In 1984 they were …
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