Ground breaking of NIPER Gandhinagar campus tomorrow


Gandhinagar

Ground breaking for The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER) will take place at Palaj in Gandhinagar district on December 16 at 10.30 am in presence of union chemicals and fertilizer minister Ananth Kumar and Minister of State Hansraj Ahir. Gujarat Chief Minister will also remain present during this function.

The government of India plans to set up India’s first national centre for medical devices(NCMD) in Gandhinagar in next two years at estimated cost of Rs 100 crore.

The Ministry of Chemicals and Fertilizers, Government of India has assigned NIPER-Ahmedabad to do this task in the recently announced medical devices policy. The center will come up at NIPER’s new campus, ground breaking of which is going to take place tomorrow. The new centre will have testing facility, research and development center and regulatory divisions and biomedical engineering facility for medical devices. Gujarat has over 100 medical devices companies.

– DeshGujarat