The Uttarakhand government has started the process of reviving the State Pharmacy Council (SPC). The council has been in a suspended state for the last eight years. The orders to reconstitute the SPC have been given by the Health minister Dhan Singh Rawat to the officers of the department. This information was given by the minister to the office bearers of the diploma pharmacists association.
A delegation of the association met the minister at his Vidhan Sabha office on the day. The minister said that the orders to reconstitute the SPC have been given to the officers of the department. He said that the Pharmacy Practice Regulation 2015 would be strictly implemented in the State after the constitution of the council. Rawat also gave on the spot orders to release the Uttarakhand pharmacist regulations which are pending at the level of administration.