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Metro College of Health Science & Research has organized an industrial visit on 21^st November 2022 for B.Pharm 4^th year students to SMBJ Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Gannaur, Sonipat, Haryana. The objective of this industrial visit was to acquint the students with the industrial setup and help them establish correlation between theoretical and practical knowledge. Practical training constitutes an important part of pharmacy curriculum, being essential for students’ professional advancement. In this regard, the industrial visit, having 40 students was done in guidance of three faculty members Dr. Deepak Kajla, Mr. Shashank Tiwari and Ms. Rashmi Singh.

This training is universally regarded as a vital component of pharmacy education and is an indicator of the extent of industry –institute interaction, which is very essential for the growth of industry as well as for attaining excellence in technical education.

A group of 40 students accompanied by three faculty visited SMBJ Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd., Gannaur, Sonipat, Haryana, an industry of well repute. Prior permission from the industry was taken to visit the Manufacturing, Quality Control and Quality Assurance area.

All the students and faculty members reached MCHSR campus by 08:30 am and started their journey at 09:00 am via college bus. Warm welcome was received from Ms. Aarti along with the staff members. Ms. Aarti had addressed the students and gave brief introduction of SMBJ Pharmaceuticals Pvt. Ltd.. It has been established in the year 2017, by Mr. Amit Jain. They are a growing CDMO Pharma company driven by the cause of spreading health, happiness and humanity. They have well-qualified and professional team working to cater the needs of Pharma industry and improving the quality of life. They are committed to deliver authentic, reliable, affordable and high quality products on time, while strictly adhering to the quality and hygiene norms of WHO-GMP. It spreads across an area of 450 sq.m. The premises has been built to suit the cGMP norms. The manufacturing campus is competent to produce the Liquid orals, Tablets and Capsules. The factory has its own fully equipped laboratory with In-house testing facilities for the products and also have adequate and competent staff to carry out the Manufacturing Operations as well as product analysis. They conduct timely self-inspection and quality audits to detect any shortcomings in the quality standards and recommend necessary corrective actions.

After this brief introduction of company, students were divided and proceeded to visit manufacturing unit and QA- QC wing one by one.

Ms. Aarti told the students that the plant has facilities for manufacturing of different dosage form i.e.  Tablets, Capsules, syrups. She showed each section to the students starting from warehouse to the packaging section of each category of products by explaining role of each and every section separately for the manufacture of various products.

Mr. Ajay guided the students to the QA-QC department of the plant and take the students to Quality Control Laboratories which are set up as per cGLP guidelines & having Wet lab, instrumentation, stability and Microbiology lab with latest and sophisticated instruments. He explained each and every section and instrument to the students. It provided a good gain of knowledge to the students which helped them to understand practical aspect of theory studied in their course work.

After visit there was a vote of thanks from the faculty member of MCHSR to the Director and Staff member of SMBJ Pharmaceutical Pvt. Ltd. for their kind hospitality and great cooperation. They were also presented a memento and letter of thanks on behalf of Prof. Dr. Kanak Lata, Director Education, MCHSR