UPSC Recommends Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi as Next Drug Controller General of India
News 18Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission secretary-cum-scientific director Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi has been recommended to be the next Drug Controller General of India. Dr Somani, Dr Raghuvanshi and Dr Jai Prakash, senior principal scientific officer at the Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission, appeared for interviews conducted by the UPSC last week. “The Union Public Service Commission on the basis of assessment of bio-data of the eligible officers received…and after holding personal talks with them on January 27 recommend Dr Rajeev Singh Raghuvanshi for appointment to the post of Drug Controller by short term contract basis,” according to the UPSC communication to the Health Ministry. After working for seven years at the National Institute of Immunology, he joined leading Indian multinational pharmaceutical company Ranbaxy Laboratories Ltd. After 12 years at Ranbaxy Laboratories, he moved to Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd, Hyderabad, where he worked for 11 years.