If there weren't pharmacists, there won't be drugs that the doctors could prescribe. Pharmacy has everything to do with drugs - right from their origin, preparation, effects and side- effects, dispensing and laws concerning medicines. Thus, the myth that all those who nurse ambitions of becoming doctors, but fail, end up in pharmacy, can not be more far - off from the truth. With the growth in science and technology, the improved understanding of diseases, their causes and possible remedies, have made Pharmacy a field full of potential and lots of challenges

The pharma industry in our country is nearly hundred years old. Today, the market comprises over 25,000 manufacturing units; one - fifth of them involved in making bulk drugs, according to one government statistics. Now with liberalisation, there are many more job opportunities opening up, especially in multinational pharmaceutical companies. The fact that the industry has been showing nearly 10 percent growth, much higher than the overall industrial growth, indicates the potential it has