Only 13% of 95,000 Approved Faculty Onboarded: PCI Gives 15-Day Deadline for Biometric Attendance in Pharmacy Colleges
Biometric Attendance System in Pharmacy Colleges
New Delhi: Issuing a strict directive to pharmacy institutions nationwide, the Pharmacy Council of India (PCI) has mandated the immediate implementation of the Aadhaar Enabled Biometric Attendance System (AEBAS) and instructed all colleges to register on the official portal https://central.pci.ac.in/ and complete faculty onboarding within the next 15 days.
This aligned with the goal of ensuring accountability, transparency, and real-time faculty attendance tracking across pharmacy institutions.
The Council has directed all institutions to take the following steps, i.e., purchase of the AEBAS devices, onboarding and registrations on the https://central.pci.ac.in/ and further processing for the faculty registration on the respective URL of the institutions.
In addition to the above, PCI revealed that approximately 2735 institutions have been successfully approved as of 07.08.2025 in place of approximately 6000 institutions. In addition, approximately 12,600 faculty are only onboarded on AEBAS under various institutions, but the count of approved teaching faculty on DIGI-PHARMed is approximately 95,000.
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