Pharmacy Act — Law Update

State competence to prescribe essential qualifications for public employment
Distinction between professional registration and public recruitment eligibility
Absence of statutory repugnancy between state rules and central enactments
Non-equivalence of technical diploma and degree courses in professional streams
Rational basis and empirical justification for hospital-centric training requirements
Permissibility of qualification screens without amounting to absolute exclusion
Limits of judicial review in matters of equivalence and administrative expediency
Prerogative of the state to tailor recruitment to service exigencies
Rejection of the vice of micro-classification in preferential job channeling
Upholding of state cadre rules and dismissal of challenges by degree-holders