Association Activities

The 59th National pharmacy week was celebrated on 21stNovember 2020 at 5pm through Zoom meet. The theme of the year was “Pharmacist - Frontline Health careProfessionals”. Sri. R. Narayanaswamy. President of the Association welcomed the gathering. He emphasized the need of amendment in the recruitment rules of pharmacist in the Tamil Nadu Govt. Hospitals by inclusion of pharmacy graduates. At present the recruitment rules have the qualication of only Diploma in pharmacy. He told that much state government in our country already changed the recruitment rules by inclusion of degree in pharmacy in addition to diploma in pharmacy. The quality of the medicines can only be maintained by their proper storage and must be dispensed in right manner with counselling of the patient by employing degree holders in pharmacy. He also stressed the need of amendment in the Drugs and Cosmetics Act by repealing entry at S.No. 23 ofschedule K in order to maintain the quality of the medicine distributed to the patients / public. He welcomed Dr.Manjiri. S. Gharat, Principal of K.M. Kundani College of Pharmacy, Mumbai. Mr. M. Rajarathnam, Secretary of the Association narrated about the activities of IPGA, TN branch during the last one year. The major activity is giving GPAT coaching for pharmacy graduates free of cost through online mode. He also enlightened the proposal of health insurance scheme to all the members of the association.Prof. K. Elango and R. Vijayaraj organized and conducted elocution competition on the theme of this year. Twenty four students from various colleges of pharmacy Participated in the competition. The following were the winners of the competition: PG CATEGORY: • 1st PRIZE ( Rs.10,000/-) Renny Rozario, Pharm D VIyear - Sri Ramakrishna Institute, Coimbatore. • 2nd PRIZE ( Rs.5,000/-) Deepika G. Pharm D IV year - C.L. Baid Mehta College of Pharmacy, Chennai • 3rd PRIZE (Rs.3,000/-) Gopikanath Pharm D III year – Vels Institute of Science, Chennai • 1st Prize (Rs.10,000/-) B. A. Tanisha B. pharm III year - Dr. M.G.R. Educational and Research Institute, Chennai • 2nd Prize (Rs. 5,000/-) A. Sonupriya B. Pharm II year - United College of Pharmacy, Coimbatore • 3rd Prize ( Rs.3,000/-) P. Vanitha B. Pharm II year - Madurai Medical College, Madurai

On 10th January 2021, various Pharmacy Graduates who were helping COVID19 patients by way of their Community & Hospital Pharmacy services, were felicitated as CORONA WARRIORS by Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association, Bihar State Branch. They were presented a White Apron with IPGA Logo, Certificate of appreciation and a Floral Bouquet. The following Life Members of IPGA working as Community /Hospital Pharmacists were Felicitated - 1. Mr. S S Pathak 2. Mr. Sudhir Kumar 3. Mr. B. K. Singh 4. Mr. Virendra Kumar 5. Mr. Ashok Kumar Singh All the IPGA SF Office bearers and members were honoured with Floral Bouquets for their appreciable work during WPD and NPW and COVID19 pandemic. The EC Meeting cum Felicitation ceremony was attended by President Sh Binod Kumar, General Secretary’s Shripati Singh, Vice President, Sh T P Gupta, Treasurer ShN K Prasad, Jt. Secretary, Sh K S Shastradhar and other Executive Members of the Association including S/S K SSanjay, Vijay Kumar, Kamleshwar Sharma, Madan Singh,N. Rahman, Divyashu, Gunjan KCS, Shusheela Kumari,Arjesh Raj, Abhishek, Jitendra and others. A total 25Members attended the meeting.

The IPGA Life Members of Karnataka Branch meeting(Virtual) on Sunday (28.03.2021) at 11.30 am through Zoom cloud Meet. The meeting was attended by Life members of IPGA Karnataka. The meeting was held inpresence of National President Dr. Atul Nasa & National General Secretary Dr. Arun Garg, Dr. Koteswara Rao,Telangana State & Dr. Sunil Malleable, National Vice-president were also Present in the meeting.Dr. N Udupa proposed the names for the Post of ofce bearers-IPGA Karnataka. And offered open suggestionsfrom the members. After discussion members of IPGA Karnataka accepted the proposed names by Dr. N Udupafor different posts of IPGA Karnataka, and declared Elected unanimous for New Committee of IPGA Karnataka Branch. The list of Ofce bearers elected as follows: President: Mr. Umesh S. (Deputy Drugs Controller, Bangalore) Vice Presidents: 1. Dr. Narasimha Reddy (Principal, Vivekananda College of Pharmacy, Bangalore) 2. Dr. Pramod, (Managing Director, Raichur Medicare Pvt Ltd) General Secretary: Mr N V Raghuram, (Assistant Drugs Controller, Belagavi) Joint Secretaries: 1. Dr.Sunil Chiplankar (Group Pharmaceuticals) 2. Dr.Sreenivasa Reddy N, (RDTL, Ballari) Treasurer: Mr.Gopal S Mugdum (Chief Scientic Ofcer, RDTL, Ballari) Executive Committee Members: 1. Dr.Shiva Kumar ( Principal, Mallige College of Pharmacy, Bangalore) 2. Mr. Ajay Mudugal (Assistant Drugs Controller, Hubli) 3. Mr. Tejaswi Chikkanna (Assistant Drugs Controller, Davanagere) 4. Mrs. Nandini, (Dugs Inspector, Shivamogga) 5. Dr. K. L. Krishna, (JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore) 6. Dr. Md. Salauddin (Principal, Faruqia College of Pharmacy, Mysore) 7. Vacant (from Community Pharmacy forum) 8. Vacant (from Student forum) Chief Advisors: 1. Dr. B.R. Jagashetty, (Ex-Drugs Controller of Karnataka State) 2. Dr. N. Udupa, Academician

IPGA-Kerala State Branch in association with Kerala State Drugs Control Enforcement Officers Association (KSDCE ) organized a webinar on 12th June, 2021. The programme was inaugurated by Mr.John K.J, Drugs Controller, Kerala State. Sri.Jayan PM IPGA­ Kerala State Branch welcomed the gathering and Dr.C.S Satheeshkumar, President, IPGA-Kerala State Branch presided the function. Mr.Koteshwar Rao (Coordinator, IPGA South India), Mr.Jayan Philip (Vice President, All India Drugs Control Officers Confederation), Mr.Mathew Kokad (Managing Director, Kokad Pharma Ltd.) and Mr. Abdul Nazeer (General Secretary, Kerala Pharmacy Graduates Association) were felicitated in the function. The webinar session was handled by Mr.Manmohan Taneja, Assistant State Drugs. Controller, Government of Haryana. The topic of webinar was "COSMETICS RULES, 2020". Mr. Shaji M Varghese, President, Kerala State Drugs Control enforcement Officers Association was the moderator of the seminar. The programme was very lively and many pharmacy professionals including senior officers from Drugs Control Department from various states joined the webinar. The webinar concluded with vote of thanks, proposed by Dr.Limcee Thampi, Executive Member, IPGA Kerala State Branch.

KR. Mangalam University, School of Medical and Allied Sciences organized the Virtual Industrial Tour at Pharma Synth Formulation Ltd. which is Sponsored by Indian Pharmacy Graduates' Association (IPGA) on 28th ay 2021 at 2 PM. Event started by a welcome deliverance given by the session moderator Ms. Neha Minocha, Assistant Professor, SMAS & Dr. Mamta Shankar, Assistant professor, SMAS. They welcomed the Guest of honor Dr. Vijay Bhalla, Dean, SGT College of Pharmacy, SGT University & Treasurer, IPGA by reciting his Achievements. Dr. Arun Garg, Convenor & Dean, SMAS welcomed all the Panellists and participants with his inaugural speech. The event was started with welcome speech of our both panellist Dr. Arvind Kumar Gupta, Director, Pharma Synth Formulation and Mr. Arjun Gupta, CoE Pharma Synth Formulation There was 700+ Participants from all over India joined us through Zoom and few at Facebook live. The event was bedecked by eloquent and eminent speaker, Dr. Arvind Gupta. The Virtual tour was sectioned into 7 part in a single video with 7 different section enlisted as Raw material or Ware house unit, Quality Control, Quality Assurance, Tablet Section, Capsule Section, Syrup Section and Packaging Section. The quality of the video is very good and explanation of each section is also there in the same video. It was very insightful and one by one virtually we had covered all the industry section. Dignitaries like Dr. Jeyaballan Govindaswamy, Dean of Alwar College of Pharmacy also joined as a panellist. After the virtual tour there was the small panel discussion and raised the topic like Gaps between Industria and Academia and How to bridge the same & What skills industry want in students. The event was followed by the Q&A session which is well coordinated by Ms. Neha Minocha & Mr. Rajesh Sharma, Student Coordinator. The webinar was then successfully concluded by Dr. Arun Garg, whopresented the Vote of Thanks and final remarks. All things considered, the Webinar was a grand success and efforts put in by Organizing team proved to be fruitful under the guidance of Dr. Arun Garg and Dr. Mamta Shankar.