The State of Pharmaceutical Education and Research in India

On September the 30th 2011, the government has decided to setup six new National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) at Gandhinagar, Guahati, Hajipur, Hyderabad, Kolkata and Rae Bareli. It is a timely decision to meet the ever growing need of skilled pharmaceutical manpower for academia, government and industry. Though all these institutes have been functional partly through their mentor institutes for the last few years, the speed with which they are being set-up and their functioning need a quantum jump.