Association Activities

1. On National Women’s Day, Feb 13th 2023 the following sticker was prepared and circulated among WhatsApp groups and also forwarded to all the pharmacy colleges in Kerala through email. 2. IPGAWF Kerala together with Kerala Pharmacy Graduate Association Womens Wing conducted a magnificent physical event on behalf of International Women’s day on 11th March 2023.Around 50 participants attended the session.There were two sessions conducted from morning 10 to 2pm at Lisie Hospital Auditorium,Ernakulam, Kerala. The Honourable MLA Smt.Uma Thomas was the Chief Guest of the program and inaugurated the function by lighting the lamp. Invited Speakers: 1st session - Theme : DigitALL Innovations and Technology for gender equality Dr.Bindu Krishnan.Sr,Statistician Data and AI,IBM Research &DevelopmentSoftware Labs,Kochi had briefed on Artificial intelligence and Gender quality 2nd session Fire and Safety :Tips and Guidelines Mr.SarathS , Mr.Midhun V M (Fire and Rescue Officers )and Team from Fire and Rescue Department,Ernakulam conducted a wonder ful practical session on the topic with presentations. The most spectacular part of the event was Honouring senior Women Pharmacy Professionals from various area with Momento and certificate. Nini Babu – Industry Mary Varghese – Regulatory Sr.N A Elikkutty - Academic Sr.Lettishya - Pharmacist Highlights: The President and Secretary of KPGA and President of IPGA Kerala attended the function. All the KPGAWomens wing and IPGAWF Kerala members actively participated for the successful completion of the event.

Columbia Institute of Pharmacy [CIP] in association with Indian Pharmaceutical Graduate Association [IPGA], Raipur organized various activities from June 2022 to January 2023. The theme for celebration was based on “Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav.” The institute organizes various extracurricular activities every Saturday under the guidance of Prof. Ravindra Kumar Pandey, General Secretary, Indian Pharmacy Graduate Association & Professor, CIP. All the students of D. Pharm and B. Pharm of our institute took part enthusiastically in all the activities. During the event Shri. Kishore Jadwani, Chairman, Janpragati Education Society and Shri Harjeet Singh Hura, Secretary Janpragati Education Society and Prof. Amit Roy, Principal, Columbia Institute of Pharmacy along with all the faculty members were present.

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 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

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