Account and accountability of 11th five year plan projects of NIPER

Thanks to Hon’ble Chairman Dr. V. M. Katoch and Hon’ble members Board of Governors for taking accounts of NIPER 11th Five year plan projects,

It is learnt that project wise and individual wise progress for all 11th Five year plan projects, scientific as well as infrastructure projects will be compiled, accounts will also be thoroughly checked. Reports will be prepared and submitted to DOP for further submission to Parliamentary standing committee for Ministry of Chemicals & Fertilizers, Planning commission and Rajya Sabha.

Academic Planning and Development Committee (APDC) started taking account of scientific progress from today. Another committee of experts will take accounts of infrastructure projects.

Midterm review committee found many lacuna in 11th Five year plan projects (appended below)

Now it is remained to be seen that what progress are made after midterm committee recommendations. “Almost no progress is made in majority of the projects” said one scientist on anonymity. Review of project objectives and money allocated shade some light on apprehension.  

Schemes of 11^th Five Year Plan (2007-12)

SCHEME CODE	Name of the Scheme	Name of attached faculty/personnel	5 yr Plan Budget (lakhs)	Objective with deliverables	???
(A)	Continuing / Ongoing Schemes
C01	Teaching Programme	IP Singh	300	To train the students in various fields of pharmaceutical sciences To develop the inter-disciplinary skills so that the graduates interface with various pharmaceutical industries in relation to the requirement of the manpower in this field	How many students placed in industry last five year?
C02	System Biology	N Roy	380	To concentrate on Research towards drug target discovery of leishmaniasis, malaria, diabetes and related lifestyle disease and to provide training of NIPER students (both masters and Ph.D.)	No money allocated in 20007-08 & 10-11 where it is diverted?
C03	Invitro/ Alternative Method of Screening	KB Tikoo	475	To create various in-vitro pharmacological screening assay facility	How many assay developed? How many compound screened? How many sample from industry screened?
C04	Daibeties Complications	SS Sharma	550	To drug target identification with special reference to research on insulin resistant diabetes.	How many target discovered? What is the out come?
C05	Pharma Parasitology/Virology/Infection Laboratory	PP Singh	913	To expand and modernize the existing small base of pharmaceutical parasitological research and education. Creat a PIII Laboratory for parasitological research	Is P-III laboratory functional? Is the equipments operational? Physical tour of the facility to verify the progress
C06	Leads Moleculars for TB, Malaria and Ieishamania	AK Chakraborty	515	Rational design of heterocyclic molecules (NCEs)as potential antiparacytic inhibitors. Synthesis of designed heterocyclic compounds(NCEs) Bio‐evaluation studies for discovery of novel anti-paracytic agents	How many molucule developed? How many molecule send for bioassay? Is it true a new biological laboratory developed in medicinal chemistry department? Is it functional?
C07	Pharma Grid	P Garg	1106	Establish state-of-the-art computing facility to the faculty and students of the Institute and others by housing leading-edge computing systems	How many jobs done in the system and for what purpose?
C08	Pharamaco-informatics	PV Bharatham	325	Establish a grid based computational facility for the benefit of computational studies of Drugs and train students	How many computational studies of Drugs done so far?
C09	Chiral Drugs/bio-Chemo Enzymatic-Transfermation	UC Banerjee	178	Biotransformation of enantiomerically pure drugs as a replacement for racemic forms some of which are currently in clinical use	Any Chiral molecule developed? Why mid term review committee recommended project to be shelved
C10	Pharmacy Heritage	Director	145	To start audit course for all the students in NIPER in Ancient History Sacred medicine, Drugs and Immune system of Medicine	No course started objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed.
C11	Nanotechnology & Drug Delivery System	N Kumar	525	Develop of efficacious Nanomedicines	Any Medicine developed ?
C12	Business Development Group	A.  Vig	175	-To increase interaction with niche area clients, both within India and abroad	No such group set up at NIPER, Mohali till date.  All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed Money also asked for the same project in N09, surprising
C13	Reference Standard Development	S Singh	200	Development reference standards for Indian Pharmacopoeial Commission (IPC).	How many reference Standard Developed? Money used in trading
C14	Advance Centre For Traditional Medicine	KK Bhutani	639	Develop cost effective medications and biological agents from sustainable medicinal plant resources	How many types of equipment are purchased? How many hour of running time logged?
C15	Impurity Profiling Facility	S Singh	102	Provide synthesized impurities to SME and global pharma industry	How many Impurity Standard Developed? Money used in trading?
C16	Standardization of Herbal Products	KK Bhutani	223	To expand and modernize the existing small base of herbal product and make herbal product for clinical trial	Green houses are empty herbs are growing where?
C17	Pharamacological & Toxicological Screening Facilities	SS Sharma	148	Establish cell-based and animal based assays for lead evaluation, optimisation and pre-clinical evaluation and training	How many assay developed? How many compound screened? How many sample from industry screened?
C18	National Bio Availability centre	S Singh	257	To expand the existing facility	No work for the existing center for last six years why extension? Money also asked for the same project in N06, surprising
C19	Technology Development	A.  Vig	569	To provide training in scale up pilot plant for Bio technology and process chemistry Up gradation of TDC to meet Schedule “M” and WHO standards	No training provided to students used to rent Ranbaxy lab in lower rate CAG objected, para stands.
C20	Library/Electronic Journals	KP Kartha	550	Procurement of books, journals  & abstracts for the library	Why money from N-17 diverted to purchase Sci-finder, at an annual recurring expense of about Rs.27 lacs every year, though same was neither proposed nor approved under the project.
C21	CIL Instruments	AK Chakraborty	750	Central instrumental support for running in-house Institute schemes, testing of samples of universities, other Institutions and Pharma Ind	How many types of equipment are purchased? How many hour of running time logged?
C22	Project Manpower Expenditure	Registrar	475		Project stopped due to lack of manpower, where the money gone?
(B)	Infrastructure Development and New Schemes
N01	Boys Hostel	Executive Engineer	500	To accommodate more no. of students	Functional
N02	Swimming Pool	Executive Engineer	125	To set up facility for the health of student & staff	Non functional till date All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed
N03	Shopping centre	Executive Engineer	5	To set up facility with in the campus	Functional
N04	Community Centre	Executive Engineer	45	To set up the facility for staff of Institute
N05	Auditorium	Executive Engineer	550	To accommodate more no. of person during workshops/seminars/convocation & institutional functions	No such building till date.  All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed
N06	Extension of  Bio-availability Centre	Executive Engineer	44		No work for the existing center for last six years why extension?
N07	Health Centre	Executive Engineer	57	To take care the health of students	A gynecologist recruited without advertisement for 600 male student
N08	Type II-V Houses	Executive Engineer	455	To accommodate more staff	Existing building are not occupied why build new building? CAG also objected para stands
N09	Provision of additional bridge & gate	Executive Engineer	286	To expand the existing facility	Done
N10	Earth filling & Land Scaping	Executive Engineer	128	To claim more land	Area of land developed
N11	Furniture  &  Air-conditioning etc.	Executive Engineer	400	The meet the furniture & air-conditioning requirements of above infrastructure	Where are the furniture located? Any physical verification done?
N12	Herbal Preservation  Setup	KK Bhutani	85	Recommended to be shelved
N13	Setting Up of Dosage form Pilot Plant	AK Bansal	541	To setup dosage form pilot plant	Is it completed? All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed.
N14	New specialization in Pharma Mgt.	A. Sharma,	160	To train the students in management of drug discovery/development institutions will yield better results and minimize the losses. The mandate of NIPER  will be meaningfully fulfilled by providing specifically trained human resources	No such specialization introduced in MBA Department till date.  All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed.
N15	Research in Pharm Vigilance & Pharmaco economies	P Tiwari	250	To train in strong pharmaco-vigilance activity for ensuring safer use of medicines	What research conducted? How many equipments purchased? Why those equipments transferred without using?
N16	Clinical Research Training	P Tiwari	250	To train the students in conducting clinical trials	How many clinical trials  conducted? How many students trained?
N17	Intellectual Prop. Right	P. Bansal	225	Human resource development in IPRs to meet the demands and challenges of Pharma /academic institutes and Industry	No such department set up at NIPER  till date.  All objectives of a project  funded in national interest, failed.
N18	Drug for Most neglected diseases	R Jain	1583	To develop a state of the art teaching and research laboratory, which would conduct research in drug discovery areas as, mentioned above. To generate technically qualified human resources for future medicinal chemistry and Pharmaceutical industry of India. To explore various modern techniques for drug discovery and development. To carry out consultancy assignments relevant to above-mentioned areas.	How many students trained? How many consultancy project done? What modern technique explored? How money utilized in swimming pool?
N19	Cerebral ischaemia/MRI	SS Sharma	500	Recommended to be shelved