APPENDIX-B

(See regulation 9)

CONDITIONS TO BE FULFILLED BY THE ACADEMIC TRAINING INSTITUTION

Any authority in India applying to the Pharmacy Council of India for approval of courses of study for Pharmacists under sub-section (1) of section 12 of the Pharmacy Act, 1948 shall provide.

(A) ACCOMMODATION

Suitable and sufficient accommodation with adequate ventilation lighting and other hygienic conditions should be provided to the rooms for Principal /Head of the department, office, class room, library, staff, staff common room, students common room, museum, stores etc.

At least four laboratories specified below should be provided for: —

1. Pharmaceutics Lab.

2. Pharm. Chemistry Lab.

3. Physiology, Pharmacology and Pharmacognosy Lab.

4. Biochemistry, Clinical Pathology, Hospital and Clinical Pharmacy Lab.

In addition to the laboratories, balance room, aseptic room or cabinet, animal house, a machine room are also to be provided for.

Floor area of the laboratory should not be less than 30 square feet per student required to work in the laboratory at any given time subject to a minimum of 500 square feet.

Laboratories should be fitted and constructed in a manner that these can be kept reasonably clean. Gas and water fittings, shelves, fume cupboards be provided wherever necessary.

(B) STAFF

Principal/Director/Head of the department may be engaged in teaching upto Eight hours a week, and the work load of other teaching staff should not be more than 16 hours per week.

Staff student ratio should not exceed 1:60 in theory classes and 1:20 in practical classes. There should be two teachers for a batch of 30 students in practicals.

According to the above norms, the following staff is required for an intake of 60 students:

^1Professor/Reader	-One
Senior Lecturers/Lecturers	-Seven
The minimum qualifications of The Principal/Director/Head of the Institution/Department, and the teachers be as given below
Principal/Director/ Head of Institution/ Department (Professor/ Reader)	Basic degree in pharmacy and Post-graduate in any discipline of Pharmaceutical Sciences with not less than 5 years experience in teaching.
Lecturer	M. Pharm or B. Pharm with 3 years teaching/ professional experience.
^2[Lecturer (1) Anatomy & Physiology	M. Pharm or B. Pharm with 3 years teaching/professional
(2) Biochemistry & Clinical pathology	experience or M.B.B.S

The pay scale of teaching staff shall be as prescribed by the All India Council for Technical Education for teaching staff of Polytechnics from time to time.”]

Provided that the above qualifications shall not apply to the incumbents appointed under the repealed Education Regulations.

Non-Teaching Staff

List of Non-Teaching staff for the D.Pharm course:

1.	Laboratory Technician (Qualification-Diploma in Pharmacy)	2
2.	Laboratory Attendent	4
3.	Office Superintendent
4.	Clerk-cum-Accountant	1
5.	Store-Keeper	1
6.	Typist	1
7.	Asstt. Librarian	1
8.	Peons	2
9.	Cleaners/Sweepers	4
10.	Gardener	1

1. List of Equipment for Pharmaceutics Laboratory
	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
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 water 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
2. List of Equipment for Pharmaceutical Chemistry Laboratory
	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 weightbox 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
3. List of Equipment for Physiology /Pharmacology Laboratory
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.	Telethermometer	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 device	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.	Humans 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, Bossheads, 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
4. List of Equipment for Biochemistry and clinical Pathology Laboratory
A.	Special Equipment and Instruments	No. required for 60 students	No. 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 constitutents of urine and blood and facilities.	Adequate	Adequate
5. List of Equipments for Pharmacognosy Laboratory
A.	Special Equipment and Instruments	Nos. required for 60 students	Nos. required for 120 students
	1	2	3
1.	Dissecting Microscope	20	20
2.	Charts (different types)	100	100
3.	Models (different types)	50	50
4.	Permanent slides	100	100
5.	Slides and cover slips	Adequate	Adequate
B.	General glassware	Adequate	Adequate
C.	Miscellaneous appliances, Chemicals and laboratory facilities	Adequate	Adequate
6. List of Equipments for Hospital and Chemical Pharmacy Practicals
		Quantity
1.	Water Still	1
2.	Mixing Vat with stirrer	2
3.	Filtration equipment	2
4.	Filling machine	1
5.	Sealing machine	1
6.	Autoclave sterilizer	1
7.	Membrane filter	1 Unit
8.	Sintered glass funnel with complete filtering assembly	10 Units
9.	Small disposable membrane filters for IV admixture filtration	Adequate
10.	Laminar air flow bench	1
11.	Vacuum pump	1
12.	Ovens	2
13.	Surgical dressing	2
14.	Incubator	1
15.	Karl Fiseher apparatus for moisture content determination	1
16.	Flame photometer	1
17.	pH meter	1
18.	Dissolution apparatus	1
19.	Disintegration test apparatus	1
20.	Hardness tester	1
21.	Centrifuge	1
22.	Magnetic stirrer	1
23.	Thermostatic bath	1
24.	Experimental Animals	Adequate
7.	General List of Equipment	Nos. required for 60 students	Nos. required for 120 students
	1	2	3
1.	Distilled water still	2	2
2.	Vacuum pump	2	3
3.	Refrigerator	1	2
4.	General filling equipment for the museum	Adequate	Adequate
5.	Compound microscopes	20	20
6.	Oil immersion microscope	1	2
7.	Over head projector	1	1
8.	Slide cum strip projector	1	1
9.	Projection screen	1	1

Museum

Every institution shall maintain a museum of crude drugs, herbarium 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 journals. There should be adequate place in the library for students and staff to refer books.

NOTE: The above requirements are the minimum requirements and the Institute is free to provide more –physical and Teaching facility.