The Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) has announced that faculty members who apply to have their names removed from an institution through the DIGI-PHARMed portal will be automatically relieved within a fixed time period, following multiple complaints from teachers.
This move is also intended to strengthen and simplify the Council’s digital transformation efforts through the DIGI-PHARMed system, an online platform designed as a unified service hub for pharmacy institutions, educators, and professionals nationwide.
In a recent notice, the Council stated that it has repeatedly received grievances from faculty alleging that institutions fail to release them even after they submit resignation requests via the portal. To address this, PCI has decided that if an institution does not act, the system will automatically remove the faculty member’s name 30 to 45 days after the relief request is filed.
Institutions are therefore required to process such requests within the 30–45-day window; otherwise, the portal will delink the faculty member’s name from the institution automatically.
The Council added that it is currently reviewing portal data and refining procedures to verify the accuracy of submitted information so that future registration, monitoring, and regulatory actions rely on a reliable national database of pharmacy institutions and professionals.
Recently, thousands of pharmacists were blacklisted on the portal due to missing, inaccurate, or falsified information, and they were instructed to re-register with valid documents and corrected details. PCI also noted instances where institutions allegedly reused pharmacists’ documents without consent to complete faculty registrations. It emphasized that such misuse is under surveillance and warned institutions not to create fraudulent accounts on the DIGI-PHARMed portal using unauthorized email IDs or phone numbers.