Department of Pharmaceutics
Banaras Hindu University
59th Indian Pharma Congress and Platinum Jubilee celebration of Department of Pharmaceutics- A report
(Report forwarded by Chandrakant Trivedi, B Pharm 1975. Email: cltvav@yahoo.com)
(Inauguration of 59th IPC Congress).
Pharmaceutical Education in India at the University level was started in BHU in July 1932 by Prof. M. L. Schroff. The Department has so far produced about 2000 B. Pharm, 1000 M. Pharm and 80 scholars. This Department is the birthplace of national level professional bodies like IPA (Indian Pharmaceutical Association-1940); APTI (The Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India-1966) and IJP (Indian Journal of Pharmacy-1939).
With the efforts of senior BHU alumni like Dr Dinesh Jaiswal, Dr Ashok Rakhit, Dushyant Desai, Kanti Vadsola, Vinod Shah and Prof Krishna Kumar, we were able to convince Prof. B. Suresh –President of IPCA – (Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association) to celebrate 59th IPC at BHU and thus we celebrated our Platinum Jubilee as A Mega Event in Banaras during 20th –23rd December of 2007.
More than 6000 participants took part in this event. There were about 2765 student delegates, 1800 – Teachers/scientists/industrial representatives, 500 volunteers, 66 speakers in scientific sessions. Pharma Exhibition was organized by FICCI-New Delhi having about 140 stalls (organizations).
We owe a debt of gratitude and a special vote of thanks to our Honorable Vice Chancellor -Prof. Punjab Singh. Without Dr Singh’s personal involvement, absolute commitment, complete cooperation and tireless efforts, this event would not have been possible nor the excellent success it achieved. A special recognition and thanks are in order for Prof. Radheshyam Srivastava and Dr. Tulsi Chakrabarty.
We were able to get commitment of about $ 120,000/- from our BHU alumni and alumni of other collages in India-to support our Department.
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The photos of the 59th IPC Congress and platinum Jubilee celebration of Department of Pharmaceutics can be viewed here: