Indian Pharmaceutical Congress Association (IPCA) is a federation of five national associations as its constituents namely Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA), Indian Hospital Pharmacists Association (IHPA), Association of Pharmaceutical Teachers of India(APTI), Indian Pharmacy Graduates Association (IPGA) and All India Drugs Control Officers' Confederation (AIDCOC). The total strength of all the five federating bodies is more than twenty five thousand professionals from different facets of Pharmacy. IPC is reckoned as one of the biggest conclaves of Scientific Community in the country. The first Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC) was held at Calcutta in December, 1948 and was presided by the eminent Prof. M. L. Shroff as its President. There after every year Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC) is being organized successfully and is attended by eminent personalities from India and abroad. The 65th IPC was held at Noida under the Presidentship of Sri. Atul Kumar Nasa. The professionals elected to preside over the IPC during these years have been persons of great eminence in their respective fields.
The Indian Pharmaceutical Congress (IPC) deliberates on various issues relating to industry, regulatory academia and community pharmacy and evolves collective wisdom for formulating newer policies for the country in the relevant fields for the betterment of mankind.