The Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) is mulling over different ideas to generate revenues with the help of private partners to make the new NIPERs fully functional and autonomous.
A proposal under consideration is to leave some revenue generating activities like running hostels, auditorium, guest house, recreation and sports, maintenances etc to the private partners.
A suggestion also has come for full or part running of the exclusive courses under the PPP in some NIPERs. Though the detailed project report had suggested four types of collaboration, the DoP is yet to make a final decision yet on these proposals.
The new NIPERs, set up at Hajipur in Bihar, Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Ahmedabad in Gujarat, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal and Guwahati in Assam, are currently run with the help of mentor institutes already existing in these places. The government had approved setting up of six more institutes under NIPER in 2007 initially for two years, which had since been extended up to 2011.
