All new NIPERs to offer PhDs From 2011
New Delhi: The year 2011 has come up with great hope for all pharmaceutical students , with all the six new National Institute Of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) deciding to offer PhDs from the next academic session.
This can be considered as a good leap forward considering NIPER Mohali is the only Centrally-run NIPER currently offering doctoral programmes whereas the industry requirement is huge and unmet. As against the 150 trained Pharma personnel, NIPER Mohali is currently producing, India needs at least 1000 a year.
To begin with, about 10 doctoral research seats will be on offer in each of the six new institutes . The numbers will increase as the academic capacities of the institutes develop.
Located at Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, Rae Bareilley and Hajipur, the new NIPERs set up three years ago, have been offering only Masters [^] programmes (60 per institutes). But the steering committee on new NIPERs, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, yesterday decided to offer doctoral research avenues in these institutes following a mounting demand for cutting-edge technologists from the blooming Pharma and health sector, short of human resources.
In the long run the promise is to produce about 1000 post-graduates and doctoral graduates annually.
At present there is only one central government-run NIPER, at Mohali in Punjab, producing 150 PGs in the Pharma sector every year. This is also the only NIPER offering MBA [^] in the sector.
But, the new NIPERs are still in a fledgling state, sources said, adding that the ones at Guwahati and Rae Bareilley have only started operating well from the year 2008.
All the new NIPERs are currently functioning under mentoring institutes which are the following - B.V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education and Research Development (PERD) Centre, Ahmedabad, for the Ahmedabad NIPER; Indian Institute Of Chemical Technology , Hyderabad, FOR Hyderabad NIPER; Indian Institute Of Chemical Biology, for the Kolkata NIPER; Guwahati Medical College for Guwahati NIPER; Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for the Rae Bareilley NIPER and Rajendra Prasad Medical Research Centre for Hajipur NIPER.
On the demand side, the industry has projected an annul requirement of 1,000 trained Pharma personnel from NIPERs. Currently only about 5,000 students graduate annually in the pharmaceutical courses from 110 colleges in the country. These students rarely match industry requirements whereas the NIPERs can provide training in 14 disciplines with state-of-the-art infrastructure .
India's annual pharmaceutical production is valued at Rs. 55,000 crore and the industry is growing by leaps and bounds.
This can be considered as a good leap forward considering NIPER Mohali is the only Centrally-run NIPER currently offering doctoral programmes whereas the industry requirement is huge and unmet. As against the 150 trained Pharma personnel, NIPER Mohali is currently producing, India needs at least 1000 a year.
To begin with, about 10 doctoral research seats will be on offer in each of the six new institutes . The numbers will increase as the academic capacities of the institutes develop.
Located at Ahmedabad, Hyderabad, Kolkata, Guwahati, Rae Bareilley and Hajipur, the new NIPERs set up three years ago, have been offering only Masters [^] programmes (60 per institutes). But the steering committee on new NIPERs, under the Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, yesterday decided to offer doctoral research avenues in these institutes following a mounting demand for cutting-edge technologists from the blooming Pharma and health sector, short of human resources.
In the long run the promise is to produce about 1000 post-graduates and doctoral graduates annually.
At present there is only one central government-run NIPER, at Mohali in Punjab, producing 150 PGs in the Pharma sector every year. This is also the only NIPER offering MBA [^] in the sector.
But, the new NIPERs are still in a fledgling state, sources said, adding that the ones at Guwahati and Rae Bareilley have only started operating well from the year 2008.
All the new NIPERs are currently functioning under mentoring institutes which are the following - B.V. Patel Pharmaceutical Education and Research Development (PERD) Centre, Ahmedabad, for the Ahmedabad NIPER; Indian Institute Of Chemical Technology , Hyderabad, FOR Hyderabad NIPER; Indian Institute Of Chemical Biology, for the Kolkata NIPER; Guwahati Medical College for Guwahati NIPER; Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow for the Rae Bareilley NIPER and Rajendra Prasad Medical Research Centre for Hajipur NIPER.
On the demand side, the industry has projected an annul requirement of 1,000 trained Pharma personnel from NIPERs. Currently only about 5,000 students graduate annually in the pharmaceutical courses from 110 colleges in the country. These students rarely match industry requirements whereas the NIPERs can provide training in 14 disciplines with state-of-the-art infrastructure .
India's annual pharmaceutical production is valued at Rs. 55,000 crore and the industry is growing by leaps and bounds.
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