A.  Special equipment and instruments

No. required for 60 students

No.  required for 120 students

1

2

3

1. Continuous hot extraction equipment

5

10

2. Conical percolators

20

40

3. Tincture Press

1

1

4. Hand grinding mill

5

5

Disintegrator

1

1

6. Ball mill

1

1

7. Hand operated tablet machines

3

3

8. Tablet coating pan unit with hot air blower laboratory size

1

1

9. Polishing Pan Laboratory size

1

1

10. Tablet Hardness Tester
(Monsanto Type)

3

3

11. Tablet Hardness tester (Pfizer type)

3

3

12. Disintegration Test Unit

2

2

13. Dissolution Rate Test apparatus

1

1

14. Granulating sieve sets

20

40

15. Tablet counter small size

5

5

16. Friability Tester

1

1

17. Collapsible Tube filling and sealing equipments

2

2

18. Capsule filling machine (Laboratory size)

2

2

19. Prescription balance

40

60

20. Balance Torsion type with removable glass pan sensitivity, 30 mgm

5

5

21. Distillation equipment for distilled water

2

2

22. Water deionization Unit

1

2

23. All glass distillation Unit for making for injection

2

4

24. Ampoule washing machine

1

1

25. Ampoule filling and sealing machine

1

1

26. Sintered glass filters for (4 different grades) Bacteria proof filtration

20 each grades

20 each grades

27. Millipore filters 3 grades

2 each grades

2 each grades

28. Autoclaves

2

2

29. Pressure cookers

5

10

30. Hot Air sterilizer

2

3

31. Incubators

2

2

32. Aseptic cabinet

2

3

33. Rabbit cages and holders

10

10

34. Ampoule clarity Test equipments

2

2

35. Blender

2

3

36. Sieves Set (Pharmacopoeial standard)

10

10

37. Laboratory centrifuge

2

3

38. Ointment slabs

40

40

39. Ointment spatulas

40

40

40. Pestle and mortar (Porcelain)

40

40

41. Pestle and mortar (glass)

10

10

42. Suppository moulds of 3 size

20 each

30 each

43. Refrigerator

1

1

B. General glassware

Adequate

Adequate

C. Chemicals, appliances and laboratory facilities

Adequate

Adequate

A.  Special equipment and instruments

No. required for 60 students

No. required for 120 students

1

2

3

1

Refractometer

1

1

2

Polarimeter

1

1

3

Photo electric Colorimeter

1

1

4

PH meter

2

2

5

Atomic model sets

10

10

6

Analytical balances and weight box sets

10

15

7

Physical balances & weight box sets

5

5

8

Platform balance

2

2

9

Periodic Table chart

2

2

B.  General Glassware

Adequate

Adequate

C.  Miscellaneous appliances, chemicals and laboratory facilities

Adequate

Adequate

A.  Special Equipment and Instruments

Nos. required for 60 students

Nos. required for 120 students

1

2

3

1

Haemoglobinometer

20

30

2

Haemocytometer

10

20

3

Student's Organ bath

5

10

4

Sherrington rotating drum

5

10

5

Frog Boards

10

20

6

Trays (dissecting)

10

20

7

Frontal writing levers

15

30

8

Aeration Tube

20

40

9

Tele thermometer

1

2

10

Pole Climbing apparatus

1

2

11

Histamine chamber

1

2

12

Simple levers

15

30

13

Starling heart levers

10

20

14

ECG machine

-

-

15

Aerators

5

10

16

Histological slides

25

25

17

Sphygmomanometer (B. P. apparatus)

5

5

18

Stethoscope

5

5

19

First aid equipments

5 sets

5 sets

20

Contraceptive

5 sets

5 sets

21

Dissecting (Surgical) instruments

20 sets

30 sets

22

Operation table (small)

2

2

23

Balance for weighing small animals

1

2

24

Kymograph paper

Adequate

Adequate

25

Activity cage (actophotometer)

1

1

26

Analgesiometer

1

1

27

Thermometers

20

20

28

Distilled water stills

2

2

29

Plastic animal cages

10

10

30

Double unit organ bath with thermostat

1

1

31

Refrigerator

1

1

32

Single pan balance

1

1

33

Charts

Adequate

Adequate

34

Human Skeleton

1

1

35

Anatomical Specimen (Heart, brain, eye, ear, reproductive system etc.)

1 set

1 set

36

Electro - convulsometer

1

1

37

Stop watches

10

10

38

Clamp, Bo ssheads, screw clips

Adequate

Adequate

39

Symes' Cannula

20

40

B. General Glassware

Adequate

Adequate

C. Chemical and Misc. Laboratory apparatus and appliances(needles, thread, Plasticin, tubing, burners, polythene tubes, syringes etc)

Adequate

Adequate

A.  Special Equipment and Instruments

Nos. required for 60 students

Nos. required for 120 students

1

2

3

1

Colorimeter

2

2

2

Microscopes

20

20

3

Permanent slides (Skin, Kidney, Pancreas, Smooth - muscle, Liver etc.)

Adequate

Adequate

4

Watch glasses

25

50

5

Centrifuge

1

1

6

Microscope with oil immersion

5

5

B.  General Glassware

Adequate

Adequate

C.  Biochemical reagents for analysis of normal and pathological constituents of urine and blood and facilities.

Adequate

Adequate

Museum

Every institution shall maintain a museum of crude drugs, harbarium sheets, botanical specimens of the drugs and plants mentioned in the course.  In addition, the following are recommended:-

1.   Coloured slides of medicinal plants:

2.   Display of popular patent medicines; and

3.   Containers of common usage in medicines.  

Library 

Every institution shall maintain a library which should contain books mentioned in the syllabus and also the current pharmaceutical journal.  There should be adequate place in the library for students and staff to refer books

Appendix - C
(See regulation 18)

Conditions to be fulfilled by the Examining Authority

The Examining Authority shall be either a statutory Indian University or a body constituted by the Central or State Government.  It shall ensure that discipline and decorum at the examination centres.

• (a)    adequate rooms with necessary furniture for holding written examinations;
• (b)    well-equipped laboratories for holding practical examinations;
• (c)    an adequate number of qualified and responsible examiners and staff to conduct and invigilate the examination; and
• (d)    such other facilities as may be necessary for efficient and proper conduct of  examinations.

Appendix - D
[See regulations 20 (3)]  

Conditions to be fulfilled by the Institution to be recognized for 
giving Practical Training

The Institution wishing to be recognized under regulation 20 shall apply in writing to the Secretary, Pharmacy Council of India stating its desire, to be so recognized.

Having satisfied that the institution shall follow the conditions laid down in these rules, the Pharmacy Council of India shall grant such recognition.

Appendix - E

[See regulations 21 (1)]
Practical Training Contract form for Pharmacists.

Section I

This form has been issued to -------------------(Name of the student pharmacist) son of / daughter of ------------------, residing at ------------------------, who has produced evidence before me that he / she is entitled to receive the Practical Training as set out in the Education Regulations framed under section 10 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948.

Date:                                                    The Head of the Academic Training

                                                                 Institution

Section II

I ---------------- accept (Name of the Student Pharmacist) ------------------(Name of the Apprentice Master) of------------------------(Name of the Institution)  

(Hospital or Pharmacy) as my Apprentice Master for the above training and agree to obey and respect him / her during the entire period of my training

                                                            ------------------ (Student Pharmacist)

Section III

I, ----------------------(Name of the Apprentice Master) accept--------------------- (Name of the student pharmacist) as a trainee and I agree to give him / her training facilities in my organization so that during his / her training he / she may acquire: -

1.   Working knowledge of keeping of records required by the various Acts affecting the profession of pharmacy; and

2.    Practical experience in -  

(a) the manipulation of pharmaceutical apparatus in common use;

(b) the reading, translation and copying of prescriptions including the checking of doses;

(c) the dispensing of prescriptions illustrating the commoner methods of administering medicaments; and

(d) the storage of drugs and medicinal preparations.  

I also agree that a Registered Pharmacist shall be assigned for his / her guidance.  

                                                                        (Apprentice Master)

                                                            (Name & address of the Institution)

Section IV

I certify that ---------------------- (Name of student pharmacists) has undergone -------------hours training spread over --------------- months in accordance with the details enumerated in Section III.

                                                                        --------------------------------------
                                    (Head of the Organization or Pharmaceutical Division.)

Section V

I certify that ------------------------(Name of student pharmacist) has completed in all respect his practical training under regulation 20 of the Education Regulations framed under section 10 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948.  He had his practical training in an Institution approved the Pharmacy Council of India.

Date:                                                                            --------------------
                                                                        (Head of the Academic Institution)

PHARMACY COUNCIL OF INDIA

New Delhi-110002, the 13th February 1996

No. [4-55/93/ (Part-I)/ PCI/9137-9652-In exercise of the powers conferred by Section 10 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 ( 8 of 1948), the Pharmacy Council of India, with the approval of the Central Government, hereby makes the following regulations further to amend the Education Regulations,1991, namely:-

1. (i) These regulations may be called the Education (Amendment) Regulations, 1996.

  (ii) They shall come into force on the date of their publication in the Official Gazzette.

1. In the Education Regulations, 1991 (hereinafter referred to as the said regulations), in regulation 13 for sub-regulation (2), the following shall be substituted, namely:-

       “(2) A candidate who fails in theory or practical examination, shall reappear in such theory or
            practical paper(s) as the case may be “;  

1. In the said regulations, in regulation 15, for the figures “50%”, wherever they occur, the figures “40%” shall be substituted.
2. In the said regulations, in regulation 20,-

1. (i)      in sub-regulation (1), item (iii) shall be omitted;
2. (ii)     in sub-regulation (2) the words “ and Drugs manufacturing unit “ shall be omitted.

1. In the said regulations, in Appendix-D, in paragraph 5, the words “and drugs manufacturer” shall be omitted.  

                                                                                                              R. S. THAKUR

                                                                                                                Acting Secy.