The Department of Pharmaceuticals (DoP) which took the initiative of the project of establishing six new National Institutes of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPERs) has suggested in its detailed project report that development and maintenance of infrastructural facilities should be under the Public Private Partnership (PPP) model.
The new NIPERs, set up at Hajipur in Bihar, Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Ahmedabad in Gujrat, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal and Guahati in Assam, are currently run with the help of mentor institutes already existing in these places. Now the Government intends to set up these institutes independently on full scale basis with increased participation from the private sector, according to DoP officials.
A partnership model has been designed, wherein there would be four types of collaboration opportunities are available for the private partner under the header, Package A to D officials. The package A entitles the partner firm to have the oncus to design, build, finance, maintain and transfer the NIPER complex including land co-development for the activities related to pharmaceutical sciences and life sciences or academic activities.
The package B consists of responsibilities to design, build, finance, operate and transfer of certain facilities in NIPER campus by co-usage of facilities and creation of surplus capacity for commercial exploitation, even as the Package C offers the private partner to conduct operation and management of the academic and related functions of NIPER.
Package D would be for the partners who are looking for deals in any other manner in which they would be like to be associated with NIPERs under PPP. According to the detailed project report submitted by the consultant firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Pvt Ltd, the estimated cost on each NIPER is expected at approximately Rs 330 crore including PPP element.
The new NIPERs, set up at Hajipur in Bihar, Rae Bareli in Uttar Pradesh, Ahmedabad in Gujrat, Hyderabad in Andhra Pradesh, Kolkata in West Bengal and Guahati in Assam, are currently run with the help of mentor institutes already existing in these places. Now the Government intends to set up these institutes independently on full scale basis with increased participation from the private sector, according to DoP officials.
A partnership model has been designed, wherein there would be four types of collaboration opportunities are available for the private partner under the header, Package A to D officials. The package A entitles the partner firm to have the oncus to design, build, finance, maintain and transfer the NIPER complex including land co-development for the activities related to pharmaceutical sciences and life sciences or academic activities.
The package B consists of responsibilities to design, build, finance, operate and transfer of certain facilities in NIPER campus by co-usage of facilities and creation of surplus capacity for commercial exploitation, even as the Package C offers the private partner to conduct operation and management of the academic and related functions of NIPER.
Package D would be for the partners who are looking for deals in any other manner in which they would be like to be associated with NIPERs under PPP. According to the detailed project report submitted by the consultant firm, Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Pvt Ltd, the estimated cost on each NIPER is expected at approximately Rs 330 crore including PPP element.
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