India, Sept. 24 -- A scholarship assistance programme for pharmacy students was launched on Monday by NGO Samavesh: Action for Impact and National Pharmacy Welfare Association (NPWA) at the MCE Society's Institute of Pharmacy. A three-year memorandum of understanding (MoU) was also signed on the occasion to seal the deal.

Assistant commissioner, Social Welfare Department, Vilas Londhe, called for strengthening coordination between teachers and students, so that aspirants from marginalised backgrounds would find it easier to access scholarships to study Pharmacy. "If every teacher adopts one student, most of the issues will be resolved," he said.

Whereas, Samavesh founder Pravin Nikam highlighted the organisation's efforts to enable stud...