Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, East Sikkim

About Himalayan Pharmacy Institute, East Sikkim

Welcome to the website of Himalayan Pharmacy Institute. HPI was established in 1990 with the idea of exploring the possibilities of utilizing the abundant resource of rare medicinal plants available in the Himalayan region. The Rhenock Educational Society established in 1990 started a two year Diploma course in Pharmaceutical Science with an intake of 60 students. Within a short span the demand for degree course became so overwhelming that we had to start a full fledged degree course in Pharmacy from the year 1997.The college started off in Fiveways building in Deorali and in the year 2000 the college was relocated to a more spacious site at Majhitar, Rangpo, East Sikkim.

Himalayan Pharmacy Institute is the pioneer institution conducting Pharmacy courses in the State of Sikkim. It is an independent, co-educational and self financed institution offering Diploma, Undergraduate, Post graduate and Doctor of Philisophy (PhD) pharmacy programmes.

The Institute is situated in Majitar, along the side of the NH 10, 4kms ahead of Rangpo, the border town of West Bengal and Sikkim and 74 kms away from Siliguri, West Bengal. From Majitar 36kms remain towards Gangtok, the capital of Sikkim. The nearest Railway station is New Jalpaiguri and the airport is Bagdogra.

HPI had a humble beginning way back in 1990 in Fiveways, Deorali with the two year Diploma in Pharmacy course. Owing to the popularity of the diploma course, in 1997 the four year degree course, B. Pharm was started. It was in the year 2000 that the institute was shifted to it’s present location in Majitar. From the new spread-out campus the first batch of B. Pharm graduated in 2001. Thereafter, the Institute reached new heights in 2005, when it started M.Pharm in Pharmaceutics followed by master degree programmes in Pharmacognosy (2007), Pharmacology (2008) and Pharmaceutical Analysis (2012). The Institute reached another milestone in 2017, after starting Doctor of Philisophy (PhD).

Himalayan Pharmacy Institute has been approved by Govt. of Sikkim, AICTE, PCI and is affiliated to Sikkim University. It is accredited by ISO 9001:2008 and recognized by UGC u/s 2(f) of UGC Act, 1956. The Governing Body of HPI comprises of eleven members including Govt. nominee, AICTE nominee and University members along with the Director, Principal, Faculty and Student of the Institute. HPI has a Teachers Council comprising of all the teaching staff of the Institute which helps in the monitoring of the academic and administrative curriculum. This is further supported by 18 various committees like the Disciplinary and Anti-ragging Committee, Hostel Management Committee, Training and Counseling Committee, Instrument Maintenance Committee, Seminar & Workshop Committee, Sports Committee, Research Committee, Gender Sensitization Committee etc.

Apart from the well facilitated practical laboratories, the Institute boasts of having an air-conditioned instrument room packed with sophisticated instruments like UV, FTIR, HPLC, U-HPLC, GC, HPTLC, AAS, TGA, DSC, PCR, Nano Zeta Sizer, Flash Purification System, CO2 Incubator, Lagendroff Heart Perfusion System, Auto Analyzer, Particle Size Analyzer, Microwave Synthesizer, QSAR Software, Bilayer Rotary Tablet Machine, etc.