Vapi to have last workshop in the series on 5th April: 170 students likely to participate
Ahmedabad: After great success of FOUR “Centralized Placement Fair of Pharmacy” in the year 2014 and 2015, under the visionary leadership of Hon’ble Dr. Akshai Aggarwal, Vice Chancellor of Gujarat Technological University, Faculty of Pharmacy going to organize 5th Centralized Placement Fair for Pharmacy on 9th & 10th April 2016, Saturday and Sunday at GTU, Chandkheda campus, Ahmedabad. This event is jointly organize in association with IDMA-GSB, GAAMA, FDCA and APTI.
With an objective to make students familiar with different job profile available in pharmaceutical industries and to develop soft skills of students, Pre-placement workshops are planned at different zone level. The list of various zonal level event is as per below. So far in 6 different zonal level workshops 829 students of B. Pharm (Sem 8), M. Pharm (Sem 4) and D. Pharm (2nd year) have participated. Last workshop in this series will be organized at Vapi and appx 170 students are likely to participate.
In each of this event, one expert from Pharma industry have been invited, who have given in detail idea about different job profiles available in Pharma industries for Fresh students of Pharmacy. Another expert invited for soft skill development, wherein Do’s and Don’t for Interview has been explained by expert from such domain. All participated students have appreciated efforts of GTU for conducting such a useful workshop, which will help them to crack interview during actual placement Fair.
List of Zonal workshop
| Sr. No. | Zone | Hosting Institute | Date & Time of event | Name of Zonal Coordinator | No. of final semesters Students participated | Expert Speakers |
| 1 | Ahmedabad | GTU, Chandkheda campus, Ahmedabad | 3rd April 2016, Sunday (10.00 AM to 1.00 PM) | Dr. D. M. Patel (208) | 245 | 1) Mr. Paras Vasanani, General Manager (Global IPR), Amneal Pharmaceutical Ltd., Ahmedabad and
2) Mr. Manoj Bhatt, Director, Nextus Solutions, Ahmedabad. |
| 2 | Gandhinagar | Shri Sankersinh Vaghela Bapu College of Pharmacy, Gandhinagar (208) | 2nd April 2016, Saturday (10.00 AM to 1.00 PM) | Dr. Kaushik Kanada | 105 | 1) Mr. Lav Sharma (Assistant General Manager, Amneal Pharmaceutical, Ahmedabad
2) Dr. Sunil Patel (B. Pharm, MBA, Ph. D.), associate professor, Unitedworld Business School |
| 3 | V. V. Nagar | Anand College of Pharmacy, Anand (205) | 2nd April 2016, Saturday (10.00 AM to 1.00 PM) | Dr. Nehal Shah (241) &
Dr. Lalji Baldania (205) |
68 | 1) Dr. Bindiya Soni, HOD and Associate Professor, Anand Institute of Management, Anand
2) Ms. Disha Joshi, Assistant Professor, Anand Institute of Management, Anand |
| 4 | Vadodara | Babaria Institute of Pharmacy, Vadodara (213) | 2nd April 2016, Saturday (10.00 AM to 1.00 PM) | Dr. Falgun Mehta | 105 | Dr. Mehul Thakkar, Associate Professor, Placement head, ASPEE Agribusiness Management Institute, Navsari Agricultural University, Navsari
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| 5 | Rajkot | B. K. Mody Gov. Pharmacy College, Rajkot (212) | 2nd April 2016, Saturday (10.00 AM to 1.00 PM) | Dr. Ashok B. Patel | 135 | 1. Mr. Farhat Umar (Vice President, H. R. Dept. Amneal India Ltd)
2. Manish Malviya ( Manager, H. R. Dept. Amneal India Ltd)
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| 6 | Surat | Shri Nanjibhai Patel College of Pharmacy, Umrakh (268) | 30th March 2016, Wednesday (1:00 pm to 4:00 pm) | Dr. Dhiren Shah | 171
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1) Mr. Hardik A. Patel. Assistant professor, MBA – HR department
2) Mr. Sandeep P. Bhandari, QA Manager, Zota Healthcare Ltd |
| 7 | Vapi
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G. M. Bilakhia College of Pharmacy, Vapi (239) | 5th April 2016, Tuesday | Mr. Mittal Dalal | Appx. 170 will participate | 1) Mr. Anirudh Panchal, Head (HR), Huber
2) Mr. Harshad Patel, DGM (HR), Sun Pharma 3) Mr. Yatin Bulsara, Asst Manager (HR), Sun Pharma 4) Dr. Kedar Shukla, Director I/c, ROFEL GRIMS |
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