Post Graduate Training

Post-graduate training, the expression 'post-gradu-ate training' is used in Rule 49(c) in the sense of training received by a person holding a degree in medicine or science and not in the sense that such training ought to be received in or through a post-graduate institution imparting instruction or education in the particular discipline. The object of Clause (c) is to ensure that to be eligible for the post of a Drugs Inspector the person concerned must have received training under any of the authorities mentioned therein after graduation in medicine or science. Pre-graduation training is often not as efficacious as post-graduate training, for a person holding a higher educational qualification is in a better position to imbibe the training which he received, Maheshwar Prasad Srivastava v. Suresh Singh, AIR 1976 SC 1014 (1406): (1977) 1 SCC 627. [Drugs and Cosmetic Rules, 1945, Rules 49(c) and 44(a)]