Lupin Limited, India’s leading Pharmaceutical Company headquartered in Mumbai, has successfully positioned itself as a Transnational Pharmaceutical Company with a global footprint. The company develops and markets a wide range of high quality, affordable generic and branded formulations and APIs in multiple markets across the world. Lupin is the world’s largest manufacturer of Tuberculosis drugs. It has a significant presence in Cephalosporins, Cardiovasculars, Diabetology, Asthma and other therapy segments. Lupin has its products available in over 70 countries.
The Scientific Manpower Committee (1947), Engineering Personnel Committe(1956), AICTE (1958, 1966, 1969, 1971), Thacker Committee (1961), Kothari Education Commission (1966), National Policy on Education (1968), Ministry of Education, Government of India (1978), Draft National Policy on Education (1979), AIEI (1980), Nayudamma Review Committee (1980), Challenge of Education – a policy perspective, Ministry of Education, GOI (1985), IIT Review Report (1986), …… many more committees, commissions, seminars, symposiums……have repeatedly advocated and emphasized on the need for strong university industry linkages in India.
The Birla Institute of Technology and Science – BITS Pilani since 1973 has made a pioneering contribution for the development of institutionalized linkages between university and industry by launching Practice School which takes all its students to the industry for seven and half months as an integral component of the academic curriculum like the medical internship. Since 1979, BITS Pilani has been participating in the HRD activities of the industries through several degree programmes by integrating the working environment of the employees with the learning environment required by the Institute.
The Pharmacy Group of BITS, Pilani established in 1950 which has blossomed today into one of the most sought after Schools of Pharmacy is one of the few early schools of Pharmacy in India nurtured under the able leadership of (Late) Prof. M. L. Schroff, Father of Pharmacy Education in India.
