Various Committee formed to maintain Discipline

                                                     

                                                            ANTI-RAGGING

Ragging is strictly banned in A.N.D College Of Pharmacy. If anybody found indulged in such kind of activities, strict action will be taken irrespective of the extent. Ragging is banned by Supreme Court of India. In order to prevent such kind of activity in campus, an anti-ragging committee has been formed and brought into operation even before the start of 1st year classes by the Director.

SAY NO TO RAGGING

Ragging is neither a means of familiarization, nor an introduction with fresher’s, but a form of Psychopathic behaviour. Ragging is a violation of Human Rights, Respect Humanitarian Values. Ragging is a heinous crime, heavily punishable under law. Ragging may spoil your career forever.

College has taken various precautions as per AICTE Norms to prevent ragging and ensure 100% no-ragging.

        Anti-ragging committee

v  Formed Anti Ragging Committee consisting of senior faculty and headed by Director.

v  Persons not only from college but also from surrounding areas (i.e. residents and leaders) are also will be participating in Anti-Ragging Activities.

v  Committee has taken steps and allotted duties to all the staff members at almost all areas in the college (i.e. canteen, parking places, different blocks, play grounds etc.) and ensure that at least one faculty member will be present at any particular time at all the locations to avoid ragging activities.

v  Committee has taken precautions to avoid ragging activities at other locations like bus stops and given instructions and appointed student volunteers and secret informers at various boarding points.

v  Wide canvassing about anti-ragging is being done in the forms of Flexes, Posters and Boards in college premises and surrounding areas where there is a chance of ragging.

v  Grievances committee is also made a part of these anti-ragging activities.

v  Many awareness programmes about Anti Ragging will be conducted by Anti Ragging Committee in the form of meetings and PPTs to the senior students, faculty & non-college personnel.

Institute Anti Ragging Committee

Sr.NO.	Name of Member	Designation	Contact no
1.	Dr.Ashutosh Mishra	President	9839167801
2.	Mr.Sailesh Pandey	H.O.D. Diploma in pharmacy	9839548020
3.	Mr.Hari Pratap Singh	Proctor	9450918535
4.	Mr.Hareesh Gupta	Member	8090035920
5.	Mr.Kailash Tiwari	Worden (Boys Hostel)	9918846150
6.	Miss.Anuradha Tripathi	Worden (Girls Hostel)	7267931325
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Anti-ragging squads (For Boys Hostel, Girls Hostel)

There will be two Anti Ragging Squads, one for the girl’s and another for boy’s hostel. The anti-ragging squad will comprise of the following:-

Ø  One faculty member

Ø  Respective Hostel Wardens

Ø  Hostel Staff

Ø  Non teaching staff

Ø  Senior students

Duties of Anti-ragging squads 

The anti-ragging squad shall carry out the following functions:-

ü  It shall work under the overall guidance of the Anti-Ragging Committee

ü  The Squad shall have vigil and patrolling functions.

ü  It shall be kept mobile, alert and active at all times and shall be empowered to inspect places of potential ragging and make surprise raids on hostels and other hot spots.

ü  It will conduct regular and surprise checking at hostels from time to time.

ü  It shall carry out on-the-spot investigation into any incident of ragging.

ü  It shall conduct anonymous random surveys among freshers to check whether the Campus is indeed free from ragging.

ü  It shall ensure that anti-ragging posters are displayed in designated places.

ü  It shall occasionally dine with the newcomers in the hostels to instill confidence among them.

ü  It shall provide a report to the Anti-Ragging Committee every day for the first month and thereafter as directed by The Director.

Institute Anti Ragging squads Committee

Sr.NO.	Name of Member	Designation	Contact no
1.	Mr.Hari Pratap Singh	Proctor	9450918535
2.	Mr.Hareesh Gupta	Member	8090035920
3.	Mr.Kailash Tiwari	Warden (Boys Hostel)	9918846150
4.	Miss.Anuradha Tripathi	Warden (Girls Hostel)	7267931325

PUNITIVE MEASURES FOR RAGGING

Depending upon the nature and gravity of the offence as established by the Anti-Ragging Committee of the College, the possible punishments for those found guilty of ragging shall be one or any combination of the following:

Ø  Cancellation of admission.

Ø  Suspension from attending classes.

Ø  Debarring from any test/examination or any other evaluation process.

Ø  Collective punishment when the individuals committing or abetting ragging are not identified.

Ø  Rigorous imprisonment and fine up to Rs. 2.5 Lakhs as per Law.

  

Students Grievances Redressal

Mechanism for Students’ Grievances Redressal. A.N.D.College Of Pharmacy provides mechanism to students for redressal of their grievances with regard to their complaints on academic and non-academic matters, grievances related to assessment, victimization, attendance, charging of fees, conducting of examinations, harassment by colleague students or teachers etc. Objectives: ·         To introduce a fair, impartial and consistent mechanism for redressal of various issue faced by the students/parents. ·         To ensure the grievances are resolved promptly, neutrally and in complete confidentially. ·         To uphold the dignity of the A.N.D.C.P by promoting cordial student-teacher relationship.                  Mechanism: Whenever in any matter, a student wishes to seek redress of a grievance; the proper course for him is to address his Co-coordinator of the Department or the concerned HOD (for departmental academic and administrative issues) or Warden (for hostel related matters) or Director (for Miscellaneous issues / Students Grievances Redressal), whosoever is competent to deal with the matter. Student Grievances Redressal Committee: There is a Student Grievance Redressal Committee at the Institute level to deal with the grievances of the students. The details of this committee are furnished below: Sr. No Name of Member                Designation          Contact no 1 Dr.Ashutosh Mishra President 9839167801 2 Mr.Rajkishor Member 9919374853 3 Mr.Sandeep Sachan Member 9450797690 4 Mrs.Susmita Dhar Member 9451184104 5 Functions: ·         To receive complaints of students and redressal of grievances of students. The cases will be attended promptly on receipt of written grievances from the students. ·         This committee will deal with all the Grievances directly which are related to the common problems at Institute level both academic and administrative. In addition, this committee will also entertain the appeal filed by the student against the decision of the HOD/ Co-coordinator of the Department. ·         The Committee will review all cases and will act accordingly. ·         The Committee will give report to the authority about the cases attended and the number of pending cases, if any, which require direction and guidance from the higher authorities.

 

                                       Student Counselling

A.N.D.Pharmacy College provides free, confidential counselling services to all students.  We offer you a safe place to explore your thoughts and feelings.  Our mandate is to work with you to:

·  Identify and address stressors affecting your academic performance

·  Support your general well-being and positive mental health

·  Look at issues from a different perspective

·  Explore possibilities and develop new coping skills

·  Learn new ways of communicating and developing meaningful relationships

The Counselling Centre offers culturally sensitive services that respect and appreciate the diversity of the college community.

Role of Student Counsellor

Personal Counselling – Helps you address personal issues such as stress, anxiety, depression, adjustment to college, relationship issues, and helps you develop coping strategies, self-esteem and confidence.

Crisis Intervention – If you are experiencing a crisis or identify an emergency, such as suicidal thoughts, concern for your own safety, loss of a loved one, extreme sadness or emotional distress, you will be given priority and booked with the first available counsellor.

Consultation and Referrals – we consult with faculty and staff on your behalf and provide referrals to professional services outside the college when needed, such as hospitals/doctors, specialty mental health services, addictions treatment, shelters, food banks, etc.

Student Counsellor Committee:

There is a Student Counsellor Committee at the Institute level to deal with the counselling of the students. The details of this committee are furnished below:

Sr. No	Name of Member	Designation	Contact no
1	Mr.Samaresh Datta	Member	9532552534
2	Mrs.Susmita Dhar	Member	9451184104
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Internal Complaint Committee (ICC)

An Internal Complaint Committee (ICC) consisting of the following members is constituted to ensure safety, security and preserve dignity of female students and staff members of the college.

Sr. No	Name of Member	Designation	Contact no
1	Mr.Sailesh Pandey	President	9839548020
2	Mr.Angad Verma	Member	9532552536
3	Mr.Sandeep Sachan	Member	9450797690
4	Mr.Ghanashyam Tiwari	Member (Warden Boys Hostel)	8381970734
5	Mrs.Anuradha  Tripathi	Member (Warden Girls Hostel)	7267931325

In case of any harassment/grievance, female students and staff members are advised to contact any of the above members of the Committee to resolve the issue at the earliest.

NIRF ranking 2017

Top 25 pharmacy colleges in India: NIRF ranking 2017

On Tuesday, 4th April the HRD ministry published the all India rankings for higher educational institutions with HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar announcing Jamia Hamdard the best institute among all pharmaceutical colleges in India in the National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) rankings this year.

The Delhi-based institution is closely followed by the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali and the University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences. The Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS), Pilani also ranked among the top ten, settling at the sixth rank.

Taking a jibe at protesters at the Jawaharlal Nehru University and Jadavpur University, Union Human Resource Development (HRD) Minister Prakash Javadekar on Monday said these institutions got top positions in the India Ranking Report 2017 not because of Afzal Guru Slogans but for the good research work done by the students.

Releasing the rankings, Javadekar said, “JNU and Jadavpur University have done some good work especially in the field of science and therefore bagged top position, and not because of pro-Afzal slogans or for keeping their Vice Chancellor under siege.”

Top 10 pharmaceutical institutions in India:

1. Jamia Hamdard, New Delhi
2. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali
3. University Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Chandigarh
4. Institute of Chemical Technology, Mumbai
5. National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Hyderabad
6. Birla Institute of Technology and Science, Pilani
7. Manipal College of Pharmaceutical Sciences
8. Poona College of Pharmacy, Erandwane, Pune
9. SRM Institute of Science and Technology, Chennai
10. JSS College of Pharmacy, Mysore
11. Dr Harisingh Gour Vishwavidyalaya, Sagar
12. Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi
13. Annamalai University, Annamalainagar
14. Delhi Institute of Pharmaceutical Sciences and Research, New Delhi
15. Bombay College of Pharmacy, Mumbai
16. Nirma University, Ahmedabad
17. JSS College of Pharmacy, Ootacamund
18. Andhra University, Visakhapatnam
19. Sri Ramachandra University, Chennai
20. Banasthali Vidyapith, Banasthali
21. ISF College of Pharmacy, Moga
22. Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Dibrugarh University
23. LM College of Pharmacy, Ahmedabad
24. YB Chavan College of Pharmacy, Aurangabad
25. Integral University, Lucknow

Nucleation processes

Whether it is clouds or champagne bubbles forming, or the early onset of Alzheimer's disease or Type 2 diabetes, a common mechanism is at work: nucleation processes.

Nucleation processes are a first step in the structural rearrangement involved in the phase transition of matter: a liquid morphing into a gas, a gas becoming a liquid and so on. Clouds, boiling water, bubbles, and some disease stages are all characterized by the formation of a new thermodynamic phase which requires some of the smallest units of the new structure to form before this new phase can grow. Understanding this process is critical for preventing, halting or treating cases of nucleation processes gone wrong such as in human disease. Now, a team of researchers from University College London and the University of Cambridge in Great Britain in collaboration with Harvard University have made headway toward understanding this problem from a molecular point of view in a new study. Their finding is significant across an array of phenomena, from human disease to nanotechnology.

“Perhaps an intuitive example of nucleation would be the way in which a quiet dinner party suddenly transforms into a dancing one; such a transition usually requires several people to start dancing at once, acting as a 'nucleus' around which the dancing party assembles,” explained Anđela Šarić, lead coauthor at the University College London and the University of Cambridge. The results of this study will appear this week in The Journal of Chemical Physics, from AIP Publishing.

“As commonly observed, if this group of dancers is too small, it tends to be ignored; however, above a certain size, this dancing nucleus attracts more and more people, eventually dominating the room," adds Thomas Michaels, the other lead coauthor. This minimum number of dancing people required to transform the party is what in thermodynamic terms is commonly known as the "critical nucleus."

In their research, the team considers a particularly intriguing example of a nucleated process: the formation of protein filaments. Many filamentous structures of proteins such as actin and tubulin are key for the growth, structural formation, movement and division of cells. They are an essential characteristic of living systems. However, protein filaments can also be disease-causing: Over 50 common disorders, including Alzheimer’s disease, Parkinson’s disease, and Type 2 diabetes, are associated with the formation and deposition in the brain or other organs of protein filaments commonly known as amyloids.

Using a combination of theory and computer simulations the authors explored the nucleation of protein filaments. Their goal was to establish the fundamental physical principles behind it. Their results showed that a seemingly complicated process of fibril nucleation is actually governed by a relatively simple physical mechanism: Unorganized clusters of proteins so-called oligomers are formed initially.

These structures do not resemble protein filaments yet, but have to undergo a structural conversion before they can grow into mature filaments, Šarić explained. They found that among many different steps in fibril nucleation, the shape change inside oligomers is the rate-determining step. Therefore, conformational changes in the protein inside oligomers (leading to the formation of β-sheet configurations) are crucial to understand fibril nucleation. Previously, the size of critical nucleus was considered the rate-determining factor.

The study represents an important step forward in the mechanistic understanding of the way in which protein filaments form. Such an understanding is key for studying the early stages in the onset of diseases associated with protein aggregation, as oligomers are increasingly believed to be the prime cause for cellular toxicity.

“Understanding which microscopic-level steps are determining for the formation of protein fibrils can provide invaluable information for designing rational therapies aimed at suppressing pathogenic oligomer generation," Šarić explained

Moreover, due to their unique physicochemical properties, protein filaments are finding extensive applications in materials science as biomaterials for nanotechnology," Michaels said. "Better control of filamentous growth would benefit the production of novel functional materials that have extensive applications in materials science as biomaterials for nanotechnology."

Materials provided by American Institute of Physics(AIP).

Nalanda University's 'autonomy hit', chancellor George Yeo quits

 Nalanda University chancellor George Yeo resigned on Friday, saying that the varsity's autonomy was being affected as he was "not even given notice" of the change in the governing board that was announced on Monday.

"The circumstances under which the leadership change in Nalanda University has been suddenly and summarily effected is disturbing and possibly harmful to the university's development," Yeo said in a statement to members of the earlier board of the university.

Yeo is a former foreign minister of Singapore and India might have to expend some diplomatic capital to smooth things with the city-state, one of India's closest international partners.

The board was reconstituted by President Pranab Mukherjee as its visitor on November 21, which ended Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's long association with the university he had helped set up.

"It is puzzling why I, as chancellor, was not even given notice of it. When I was invited to take over the responsibility from Amartya Sen last year, I was repeatedly assured that the university would have autonomy.

Nobel laureate Amartya Sen's long association with Nalanda University, which he had helped set up, was ended when the board was reconstituted on November 21. "It is puzzling why I, as chancellor, was not even given notice of it. When I was invited to take over the responsibility from Amartya Sen last year, I was repeatedly assured that the university would have autonomy. This appears not to be the case now. Accordingly, and with deep sadness, I have submitted my letter of resignation as chancellor to the visitor," George Yeo said.

Yeo also clashed with the government on the reappointment of vice-chancellor Gopa Sabharwal. He had approved an extension to her tenure until a new V-C was found. The government overruled that. The new governing board, which was announced earlier this week , only has one member, N K Singh, from the previous Nalanda mentor group .

Yeo, along with other members of the governing board, wanted the Nalanda Act to be amended to broaden participation of other East Asian countries, apart from those which had contributed financially. "For reasons not entirely clear to me, the government of India has decided to form the new governing board with immediate effect before the act is amended," Yeo said.

The amended act, he said, would have removed a "major flaw" .

"This provision, which was never recommended by the Nalanda mentor group (NMG), would not have been a good way to constitute the governing board and was the reason the government of India requested the NMG to continue functioning as the governing board for a number of years until the act could be amended," he said.

New pharma policy

                              Government to work on new pharma policy

The government will soon come up with a new pharma policy to counter the excessive controls thwarting competitiveness and innovation in the sector.

The policy could feature significant and important features including the following:

• Disbanding of the National Pharmaceutical Pricing Authority (NPPA) in its current form, delinking price control of essential medicines. Prices could be regulated only in case when required thereby leading to more flexibility.
• Licenses of periodic renewal would also be scrapped for manufacturing and sale of drugs and would be given till perpetuity.
• The Health Ministry would also work on a process of third party certification and self certification on an annual basis.

All the above measures would essentially lead to improved ease of doing business and help in realising the full potential of the pharma sector. It has been felt that excessive controls are discouraging investments in the sector. Also, India has lost its bulk and intermediate drugs market to China.

The Indian pharma sector has the potential of reaching US$ 55 bn from the level of US$ 20 bn in 2015. Improving the ease of doing business would lead to more investments in the sector.

Dengue vaccine in India

                  Sanofi awaits govt approval to launch dengue vaccine in India

After receiving authorization in 11 countries, Sanofi Pasteur is still awaiting for approval from the government to launch its dengue vaccine Dengvaxia in India.

"The need for dengue prevention in India is urgent, and the Indian population is at risk for this debilitating disease, for which there is no cure or treatment and deserves to have a choice to be protected against the disease with a well-tested vaccine proven effective against dengue," Sanofi Pasteur India Country Head Jean-Pierre Baylet told PTI here.

''As soon as the government approves the use of the Sanofi Pasteur dengue vaccine, it will take minimally 6-8 months to complete the remaining regulatory requirements and make the vaccine available to the Indian population," Baylet said.

However, in a scenario where the government asks us to conduct more clinical trials in India before granting license, the vaccine will not be available to the Indian population before 2020, he said.

On the current approval status, Baylet said that as per the minutes published on 6th October 2016, the Technical Committee of the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare has recommended that Sanofi Pasteur's dengue vaccine be approved to protect adults in the 18-45 years of age in India, on the strength of the published documentation from the clinical studies on the vaccine that included more than 40,000 participants worldwide, including India.

For the last decade, it is estimated that an average of 5.7 million cases of dengue have been occurring in India every year, with related annual costs of over USD 1 billion.

The company has submitted the vaccine regulatory file to the Indian authorities last year in October, based on its worldwide clinical programme, including India. Since the submission, the vaccine has been approved for use - in quick succession - in 11 endemic countries of which two countries, Brazil and the Philippines, have introduced the dengue vaccine in their public immunization programme.

In July 2016, based on the public clinical documentation, as well as on a set of mathematical modelled outcomes of the potential public health impact of the dengue vaccine's implementation in endemic settings, the WHO recommended the use of the vaccine in highly dengue-endemic countries.

The regulatory review process is ongoing in endemic countries. The vaccine's regulatory file has already been submitted in more than 20 countries, in Asia and Latin America, reflecting the global burden of dengue. Singapore is the 11th country to approve the vaccine and we expect more to follow, he said.

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