#CanPharmacyPracticeBeARealityInIndia?
Let’s be honest about Pharmacy Practice in India.
🤔 Pharmacy Practice Regulations (PPR) 2015–25 are repeatedly cited as proof that pharmacy practice is legally recognized in India.
❌In reality, that claim does not stand up to scrutiny. PPR 2015–25 were framed by the Pharmacy Council of India under the Pharmacy Act, 1948 to hoodwink PharmD students and Graduates.
☑️But the Pharmacy Act primarily governs education and registration.
❌It does not confer enforceable patient-care authority, nor does it empower PCI to regulate clinical practice on the ground.
❌Calling PPR a “regulation” does not automatically make it enforceable.
☑️On the field, real power lies with State Drug Control Departments under the Drugs and Cosmetics Act.
☑️Licensing, inspections, prosecutions, and control over dispensing are all under FDA jurisdiction.
❌PPR provisions are not embedded in State Drug Rules, and therefore remain legally optional.
❌FDAs are not bound to enforce what the law does not mandate.
☑️That is why pharmacy practice in India exists only in pockets.
☑️A few hospitals run clinical pharmacy services because administrators allow it not the system.
☑️A few pharmacists counsel patients because they personally believe in it.
❌This is not system-driven practice;
It is goodwill-driven survival.
☑️ The uncomfortable truth is this:
• PPR 2015–25 is not legally tenable as an enforcement instrument.
• It creates expectations without authority and
(Like Alcohol, It creates desire but takes away performance..)
• It assigns responsibility without power.
Worse,
• It gives the illusion of progress while shielding regulators from accountability for not securing supportive legislation.
👉 If pharmacy practice is truly the goal, then guidelines are not enough.
👉 The profession needs statutory backing—A comprehensive
"The Indian Pharmacy Practice Regulation Act".
👉 Fresh Rules have to be framed after the Act is put in place.
❌ Without that, PPR remains a document of intent, not law.
😢 Continuing to celebrate PPR while ignoring its legal weakness is intellectual dishonesty. (Bankruptcy)
📢Pharmacy practice will not be built on aspirations, circulars, or seminars, Webinars of so called Resource Persons.
👉It will be built only when law, administration, and accountability are aligned.
Till then, let’s stop pretending.🫢
#PCI, #PPR15-25,
#MinistryofHealthandFamilyWelfare
#AIPDA
#PharmD
#APTI
POV: Bhagwan PS
