Life Sciences Sector Skill Development Council is soon launching the four New Qualifications in the current financial year. These are namely Bioinformatics Associate/ Analyst, Bioinformatics Scientist, Effluent Treatment Plant Operator, Pharmacovigilance Associate.
Two of the new qualifications are targeted to the future skills required by Life Sciences Industry using Big Data technologies as an impact of Industry 4.0, which have evolved the Bioinformatics occupation from a niche or rare job role in Drug Discovery department to a larger business segment in itself in the Life Sciences Industry. Out of the two Bioinformatics Analyst is a high demand job role with a 50% YoY rise in the fresh Skill resource requirement in the Industry.
The Effluent Treatment Plant Operator is a much asked skill set with rising concerns on the water pollution due to process industries especially Life Sciences Industry. With stricter audits from foreign and Indian regulators demand the skills more than just plant operations. Hence in the current scenario this qualification will help Industry to get a job ready resource.
The Pharmacovigilance Associate is a job role in the highest demand by Industry with the increased reach of Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) under Ministry of Health and Family Welfare (MoHFW). LSSSDC had been in consultation with PvPI since 2017 to draw the national occupational standards for Pharmacovigilance Associate and finally is achieving its goal.
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For the above four new qualifications, LSSSDC has engaged Industry experts PAN India ranging from Large to Micro employers. A Series of Workshops were held for Industry consultation in addition to one-o-one dialogues with Industry experts to get their inputs in writing.
Two such workshops were recently conducted in partnership with KDPMA (Karnataka Drug and Pharmaceuticals Manufacturer’s Association) and supported by ABLE (Association of Biotechnology Led Entrepreneurs) in Bangalore which were attended by a large set of companies and to name a few were Biocon, GSK Pharmaceuticals, Solara APS, Group Pharma, Bal Pharma, Geltec, Recipharm Pharmaservices, Kemwell Biopharma, Ontop Pharma, Medgenome, Eli Lilly, Navitas Life Sciences and many more.
Similarly another workshop was successfully conducted in New Delhi in partnership with Department of Biotechnology (DBT), Govt. of India and Jawahar Lal Nehru University which was well attended by TCS, Evalueserve, Premas Life Sciences, Spinco Biotech, Elucidata, GeneOmbio Technology, Qiagen India, Redcliffe Life Sciences, CSIR-IGIB and many more.
Mr. Anshul Saxena, Head- Standards and Training Advisory briefed that the new qualifications have extensive and detailed inputs of Industry and on launch of the qualification after approval of National Skill Qualification Committee, the candidates skilled on these job roles will certainly be job ready and employable with enough employment opportunity in the Life Sciences sector.
