For academic session 2019-20, All India Council for Technical Education (AICTE) has approved as many as 57,747 pharmacy seats in 842 new colleges across India. With the new additions, there will now be a total of 2, 62,698 diploma, undergraduate and postgraduate seats in 3,726 pharmacy institutes this year. The surge in number of seats underlines the ever expanding Indian pharmaceutical market. This is one of the few sectors which are growing in double digit Compounded Annual Growth Rate (CAGR), say experts.