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A QUARTERLY Editorial published by

Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council

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SKILL NEWSLETTER Issue 15 | July 2019 – September 2019

Issue 15 | July 2019 – September 2019



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COVER STORY: CHAPTER 1

LSSSDC AND PHARMACY COUNCIL OF INDIA (PCI) TO LAUNCH “PHARMACEUTICAL

INDUSTRIAL SKILLS ADVANCEMENT PROGRAM” (PISAP)

LSSSDC and Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) have joined hands to enhance skills of Pharmacy students.

This will make them more job ready for the Life Sciences sector, and provide organisations with a

more productive, higher quality workforce. A meeting chaired by DR. B Suresh, President PCI and Mr.

Satish Reddy, Chairman, LSSSDC with the 30 pharmacy colleges selected by PCI was held in New Delhi

on Aug 1, 2019 to discuss the proposal of launching Pharmaceutical Industrial Skills Advancement

Program (PISAP). The meeting was also attended by LSSSDC’s GB members Mr. B R Sikri, Mr. P K

Gupta, Dr. Shubnum Singh and Mr. Ranjit Madan along with LSSSDC’s core team.

All the Principals of 30 pharmacy consented to the need of program and appreciated the benefits.

The meeting was subsequently followed by PCI’s Central Council meeting in Chennai on Aug 6, 2019.

Our CEO, Mr. Ranjit Madan addressed the over 60 members. After deliberation, Central Council of

PCI unanimously approved the proposal to launch ‘PISAP’ as an embedded program within Pharmacy

curriculum. As an outcome, selected skilling modules will be made available as electives to students

pursuing D.Pharma, B. Pharma and M. Pharma in their final year—with scores from electives taken to

count towards the final score. In addition, students will be encouraged to take up Apprenticeship. In

case of M. Pharma, present research part in 2nd year may be replaced by Apprenticeship.

Mr. Satish Reddy and Dr. B Suresh during the 1st meeting of LSSSDC and PCI with Principals of selected

Pharmacy Colleges at PCI, New Delhi

Mr. Ranjit Madan with Dr. B Suresh and EC Members of PCI during PCI’s Central Council Meeting in Chennai



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DCGI REQUEST INDUSTRY TO ENGAGE APPRENTICE IN PHARMA AND BIOPHARMA

MANUFACTURING UNITS

In a recent advisory circular issued on 12th September 2019 by DCGI, CDSCO under MoHFW, Govt. of

India, Dr. V J Somani, DCGI has advised Pharmaceuticals and Biopharmaceutical manufacturing units

to comply with Apprenticeship Act, 1961 under which the new scheme National Apprenticeship

Promotion Scheme (NAPS) was launched to promote apprenticeship training and increase

engagement of apprentices.

https://cdsco.gov.in/opencms/opencms/en/Notifications/Public-Notices/

This is one of its kind advisory released by any Industry regulator to promote the Apprenticeship act.

Mr. Ranjit Madan, CEO, LSSSDC has stated that since Mr. Sudhansh Pant, Joint Secretary- MoHFW has

joined the governing board of LSSSDC, alignment of LSSSDC with its Line Ministry, MoHFW has been

further strengthened. This is resulting in all stakeholders, including both ministries from Govt. of

India (MSDE and MoHFW) working towards achieving the vision of India becoming ‘Skill Capital of

World’, with the country having already attained the status of ‘Pharmacy of the World’ under the

tremendous work done by MoHFW along with Indian Life Sciences Industry.

The advisory released by DCGI, the Indian Drug Regulator, promotes enrolment of apprentices in

manufacturing units even for the job roles demanding graduate and post graduate qualifications. This

will ensure continuous stream of quality skilled professionals by bridging current skill gaps in fresh

candidates and bring about better compliance with good manufacturing practices.

As a result of advisory and efforts of apprenticeship team of LSSSDC, many new industries from large

mid and small segments have come on board with LSSSDC for Apprenticeship. For FY 2019/20, 1800

Apprentices have been successfully placed with the industries as at end September, making a total

of 4000+ since the mandate to LSSSDC from MSDE.

https://cdsco.gov.in/opencms/opencms/en/Notifications/Public-Notices/



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THREE (3) NEW QUALIFICATIONS FOR LIFE SCIENCES SECTOR GETS QRC

APPROVAL

Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council (LSSSDC) has secured the Quality Review Committee

(QRC) approval for the newly developed job roles namely Bioinformatics Associate/ Analyst,

Bioinformatics Scientist, and Pharmacovigilance Associate.

The two Bioinformatics based new qualifications are targeting future skills required by Life Sciences

Industry using Big Data technologies. As an impact of Industry 4.0, Bioinformatics occupation has

evolved from a niche or rare job role in Drug Discovery department to a larger business segment in

the Life Sciences Industry. Bioinformatics Analyst, in particular, is a high demand job role with a 50%

YoY rise in the fresh Skill resource requirement in the Industry.

The Pharmacovigilance Associate is a job role with strong demand by Industry with the increased

reach of Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) under MoHFW. LSSSDC had been associated

with PvPI since 2017 to develop the National Occupational Standards for Pharmacovigilance Associate

and has finally achieved this objective.

Mr. Anshul Saxena, Director- Standards and Training Advisory has briefed that the new qualifications

have extensive and detailed inputs of Industry and will launch these qualifications after approval of

National Skill Qualification Committee (NSQC), in December 2019.Candidates skilled on these new

job roles are expected to be job ready and employable with enough employment opportunity in the

Life Sciences sector.



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QUALIFICATION PACKS 2.0: REVALIDATION WORKSHOPS ORGANIZED BY

LSSSDC ACROSS PAN INDIA

The first Industry defined and validated Indian Qualification Packs and National Occupational

Standards of Life Sciences Sector were launched in 2015. After 4 years of implementation of the Skill

Development initiatives, LSSSDC is currently reviewing, rationalizing, revising and revalidating the

Qualifications—with Industry input.

In this exercise, LSSSDC has rationalized 50 Qualifications to 37 elective based qualifications. The

Standards team of LSSSDC has started getting qualification packs reviewed by the industry PAN India,

covering major clusters in Karnataka, Telangana, Maharashtra and Gujarat. Qualification Packs for

these 37 job roles in occupations of Manufacturing, Quality, Sales, R&D and Supply Chain are currently

being revalidated and reviewed by industry experts.

Glimpse of Industry Validation Workshops for Qualification Pack 2.0

Post completion of Industry revalidation which is expected to be completed within Q3 of 2019-20,

the qualification packs will be presented to Line Ministries like MoHFW, DBT for mandatory approval

and subsequently presented to National Skill Qualification Committee (MSDE) for approval of the new

qualifications.



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EVENTS UPDATE

WORKSHOP WITH INDUSTRY AND TRAINING PARTNERS FOR SKILLING IN LIFE

SCIENCES SECTOR ORGANIZED BY APSSDC IN COLLABORATION WITH LSSSDC

ON 9 JULY 2019

Glimpse of APSSSDC & LSSSDC Focused Group Discussion and Industry Academia Conference

Life Sciences Sector is a prominent contributor to Andhra Pradesh GDP, Exports and employment

generation. In this backdrop APSSDC, in collaboration with LSSSDC, invited Life Sciences Industry and

Academic experts and principals of Colleges in AP State to discuss the Skill Development and

employment generation opportunities in the sector in AP State— on 9th July 2019. The meeting was

chaired by MD, APSSDC.

The discussion was focused on need assessment to prepare unemployed youth of state and the

students enrolled in Pharmacy and Sciences subjects at Graduation and Post-Graduation level for jobs

in Life Sciences Sector in the state.

This was followed by a one day conference on Industry-Academia Connect in Life Sciences Sector on

21st August 2019 in Amravati. The conference was attended by prominent Industries like Hetero Labs,

Suven Life Sciences, Neuland Laboratories, Nakoda Pharma, Umed Pharma, SMS Pharmaceuticals and

Academic and Skilling Institutions/ Partners like Synchroserve, Nalanda, Inception, Crystal

Management Services, Yontus Life Sciences, Pharma Pathshala, Sree Technologies, and Nihar Skill

Education. Additionally, the conference was also attended by 40 Pharmacy and Life Sciences

Graduation and Post-Graduation Colleges from state of Andhra Pradesh.

Post this conference APSSSDC has selected few select colleges to start a pilot for Skill Development

in Life Sciences Sector.



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APPRENTICESHIP WORKSHOP IN PARTNERSHIP WITH KDPMA FOR LIFE

SCIENCES INDUSTRY PLAYER IN BANGALORE CLUSTER, 22 AUGUST 2019

Industry representatives in Bengaluru Cluster Workshop on NAPS

LSSSDC in Association with the KDPMA Organized an Apprenticeship workshop with Small and Mid-

scale industry focused on National Apprenticeship Promotion scheme (NAPS). More than 25 industries

participated in the workshop alongside organisations already enrolled under NAPS.

Industry Partners engaged in NAPs shared their (positive) experiences with others.

Alongside, Mr Ranjit Madan, Chief Executive Officer and Joint Apprenticeship Advisor, Life Sciences

Sector shared his views on the benefits of the NAPS and its importance to the industry. Mr Alok Jha,

Cluster Head presented a live demonstration for NAPS portal management which includes

Registration, Attendance, Payroll management and contract creations, etc to the industry.

Anthem Biosciences, Jubilant Generics, Group Pharmaceuticals, Stride's pharma, Medorganics, Ontop

Pharma, Geltech were amongst industries that join the workshop held at Bengaluru. Academics

institutions like Padmashree Institute of Management Studies and MS Ramhia college of Arts sciences

and commerce also participate in the same to spread awareness on apprenticeship opportunities

among college students.



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APPRENTICESHIP WORKSHOP FOR LIFE SCIENCES INDUSTRY PLAYER IN

AURANGABAD CLUSTER, 17TH SEPT 2019

Industry representatives during Aurangabad Cluster Workshop on NAPS

Major players in Life Sciences industry of Aurangabad participated in the event held in Aurangabad

and discussed the revisions in National Apprenticeship Promotion Scheme (NAPS) scheme. Many

industries showed interest in participating in NAPS scheme.

Fresh skilling opportunities were also discussed during the meeting and industries shared their

requirement wit MIT, our accredited TP in Aurangabad.

Sachin Sachdeva, Joint Director, LSSSDC also informed that to train the underprivileged youth in and

around Aurangabad, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) option could be leveraged. Mr. Sachdeva

shared that as an immediate step, separate proposal related to this has been submitted to industries.



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CII ANNUAL LIFE SCIENCES CONCLAVE AT MUMBAI, 17TH SEPTEMBER 2019

Glimpse from CII Annual life Sciences Conclave & Mr Ranjit Madan,CEO,LSSSDC addressing Summit in Mumbai

LSSSDC Partnered with CII Annual Life Sciences Conclave in Mumbai. The theme for this year's

conclave was “ Being Future Ready: Preparing for a Giant Leap” with a focus on the gamut of

challenges accosting the Indian Life Sciences sector and their possible solutions, as Indian Life

Sciences Industry looks to grow at double digit rate to hit USD 75 Billion plus over next 5 yrs.

Mr Satish Reddy, Chairman Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council did deliver a keynote

address to the audience in the event which was attended by Industry, Govt and Academia across

India.



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FOCUSED GROUP DISCUSSION ON SKILL INDIA INITIATIVE WITH INDUSTRY

MEMBERS OF INDIAN PHARMACEUTICAL ASSOCIATION (IPA) AT MUMBAI, 18TH

SEPTEMBER 2019

Indian Pharmaceutical Alliance is an association of top 22 Indian Multinational Life Sciences Industry

Players. Among the 22, LSSSDC is already working with 17 Industry members on some or other Skill

India Initiatives, and others are coming on board soon.

To boost coverage of Industry engagement among IPA Members select member of IPA were invited

for a focused discussion on Skill India initiatives and their benefits to employers, employees as well

as the entire ecosystem. Meeting was chaired by Dr. Sudarshan Jain, Secretary General , IPA and Mr.

Ranjit Madan, CEO, LSSSDC.

IPA Member representatives at Mumbai during Focused Group Discussion on Skilling Initiatives

The discussion agenda covered initiatives like Apprenticeship, Recognition of Prior Leaning under

PMKVY RPL- BICE program as well as possibilities of industry joining LSSSDC Skilling ecosystem for

fresh skill development beyond their internal requirements.

The meeting was also attended by Industry players like IPCA Laboratories and Alembic who are

participating with LSSSDC, and representatives from both these companies shared their experience

and benefits in partnering with LSSSDC.



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ANNUAL GOVERNING BODY MEETING OF THE BULK DRUG MANUFACTURERS

ASSOCIATION (BDMA) IN HYDERABAD, 28TH SEP 2019

BDMA is an all India body representing most of the Bulk Drug Manufacturers of India. Annual Governing

Body meeting of BDMA chaired by Sri. V.V. Krishna Reddy, President BDMA was organized in

Hyderabad.

Mr. Ranjit Madan, CEO LSSSDC attended the meeting and addressed the audience, stressing the need

for close collaboration among BDMA, LSSSDC and Academia.

Mr. Ranjit Madan addressing Annual Governing Body Meeting of BDMA in Hyderabad

Around 60-70 industry leaders also attended the meeting. The discussion agenda covered skill

development to enhance and support the pharmaceutical industry of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh

to get trained and skilled manpower.



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PARTNERSHIPS

MOU SIGNOFF WITH SIKKIM- ARUNACHAL PRADESH UNIVERSITY

MoU with Sikkim Arunachal Pradesh University

LSSSDC signed a MoU with Sikkim Arunachal Pradesh University for execution of skill development

programs (both fresh skilling and upskilling) in the qualifications of Quality Control Biologist, Machine

Operator and Lab Technician in Life Sciences Sector. A target of 1410 candidates to be certified in

3-year period has been set.

MOU SIGNOFF WITH GD GOENKA UNIVERSITY

MoU with GD Goenka University

GD Goenka University signed a MoU with LSSSDC to launch the apprenticeship linked Graduate Skill

Development Program. This will be first of its kind program launched by LSSSDC under ‘SHREYAS’

initiative of MHRD.



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