Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday urged Union Chemical and Fertilisers Minister Ananth Kumar to set up a National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) in the State.
In a letter, the Chief Minister said while the Centre has set up six new NIPERs at Patna (Hajipur), Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Rai Berali, Guwahati and Kolkata, the Odisha Government wants such an institute set up in the State to provide further boost to the availability of highly skilled human resource required for the pharma sector.
“We assure to make available the requisite built up space for running of the temporary campus of NIPER on an immediate basis and land for construction of its permanent campus in Odisha,” the CM mentioned in the letter.
He too informed that his Government has set up a Bio-technology Park over an area of 64 acres in Bhubaneswar and are in the process of setting up of a Pharma Park and a Medical Device Park in the Statea. “Setting up of a NIPER in Odisha would be in the fitness of the overall scheme of development of pharmaceutical sector in this region with a view to training the future teachers, research scientists and professionals for the industry,” he pointed out.