Report of the Committee Appointed by the UGC to Examine the Proposal of Bharati vidyapeeth college of Pharmacy, Pune, under the Ambit of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University)

Abstract

The Committee, visited Bharati Vidyapeeth. College, of Pharmacy, Pune on 23rd October, 1999, and had detailed discussions with Dr. S.C. Gupte, former Vice-Chancellor, Pune University and presently Advisor to Bharati Vidyapeeth, Dr. Shivajiraa Kadam, Principal of the College, the teachers and students. Dr. S.C. Gupte gave a brief account of the activities of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University) in general- and Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, Pune in particular. Both the teachers as well as the students advocated strongly for the inclusion of the Pharmacy College under the umbrella of Bharati Vidyapeeth (Deemed to be University). Most of the faculty members felt positively that the inclusion of the Pharmacy College in the deemed to be university will enhance the status of the College, for the students as a whole and would also fulfil the aspirations of the faculty and would enable them to restructure and moderanise the new courses more quickly than what could now be done under the present situation. After considerable deliberations and discussions with the faculty and management of Bharati Vidyapeeth College of Pharmacy, the Committee examined the deficiencies pointed out earlier by the AICTE Committee which visiting Bharati Vidyapeeth, Pune on 17th - I8th June, 1996 to consider their proposal for inclusion of Engineering, Management and Pharmacy disciplines under the umbrella of the deemed to be university.