Ajit Singh, chairman of ACG Worldwide has been conferred the 'Distinguished Services Award - 2006' instituted by the Indian Pharmaceutical Association (IPA) for his meritorious contribution to the Indian Pharmaceutical Association, the pharma industry and the profession of pharmacy in India.

Subodh Priolkar, president, IPA conferred the award and a citation to Ajit Singh at a function organized by IPA in Mumbai on 1, December 2006.

The IPA president noted that Ajit Singh is a fellow of the American Association of Indian Pharmaceutical Scientists, and was designated a "doyen of the pharmacy profession" by the drugs inspectors association, Maharashtra State. He is the chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Bombay College of Pharmacy and Governing Board of the Prof. K.M.K. College of Pharmacy, his group having donated a museum of pharmacy to the latter.

As president and LOC chairman of two landmark IPC Congresses, president of PAMDAL and executive committee member of the major pharma industry associations, he has, in the past, played a key role in forging valuable partnerships of the IPCA with FAPA, the FIP with IPA, the IFPMA with OPPI and FICCI with the IPCA, the last assuring the financial well-being of the IPCs.

With his brother, Jasjit Singh, he developed ACG Worldwide, a fledging pharma ancillaries business into a global firm, gaining No.1 and No.2 global position in its core product lines.

His initiative brought ISPE to India and he was chosen as "Member of the year 2004". He founded the HADSA and SAPEC to assist the nutraceuticals and excipient industry.

He also serves on the international leadership forum of the ISPE and the AAPS task force on the scientific and regulatory needs of developing countries. He has been appointed on the international board of the CRS, and is advisor to the USP for India.