Friends,
Congratulations for your conscious pragmatic choice of pharmacy as a career option and teaching as the profession. It is your catholicity of purpose and missionary zeal coupled with tireless dedication which has shaped the academic orientation while impregnation the alumnus with abundant saturation to brave the daunting challenges with absolute élan. It is your devotion to cast the right mould which has made them stand in good stead and keep their heads high against any tempest in this competitive world of diverse pharmaceutical applications.
Better let than never the country after a long hibernation as awakened to realize the pivotal role and unchallenged importance of this primordial Christine science linked intimately to the very survival and a healthy existence of man kind free from the scourge of disease.
With the advent of liberalization privatization and globalization and the attendant dimensions pharmacy now is in the vanguard of white collared career options with an exponential growth pattern deeply enshrined. The canvas is spread out, the spectrums broad and the horizon endless. India has been singled out as the most favored destination of global pharma majors. If rising investments are any indicator then the whooping billions of us dollars that is being pumped into pharma sector in the areas of contract manufacturing and research and clinical research establishes the galloping trend beyond any shades of doubt.
This has made the responsibilities of each pharma teacher more onerous and uphill.He has to meet the challenges with ingenuity, innovations and determinations with an enriched knowledge basket.
In this mind bubbling scenario of an upward trajectory our state admittedly lacks much behind, if the number of pharma institutions and the seats their in are taken into consideration added to this is the absence of a multi national pharma manufacturing and research base in this state. Lack of awareness amongst the parents and the students alike about the multi dimensional and multi faceted alluring career choice this science offers, contributes to the gloom.
But we certainly cannot afford to miss the bus. We are to combat in all the fronts of negativity with an armoury of appropriate arsenal. We are to draw out an well textured blueprint a strategically engineered road map and set our best foot forward to attain the objective. The pace has to be accelerated and the momentum has to be put in. But friends no battle has ever been thought and own without an army. Nothing has been achieved in isolation. Hence to embark upon this arduous journey I need your unstained support, encouragement and guidance. I want to share your store house of priceless experience. I want to dwell upon you wisdom. Kindly extend me the accommodation and shoulders to lean upon. Let us work together in tandem and the victory shall be ours. Together we can wrought in a revolutionary change and put orissa gloriously in the national map of pharma education and research and share the dynamics of growth and prosperity that pharma science is going to bring in.
My professional life being an open chapter hope needs no elaboration. Most of you must have got an window to my personal life as well. A devotion to duty and a passion for enrichment of the knowledge basket through dedicated research and sharing with care has been my motto.
