"We have set up a Bio-Technology Park over an area of 64 acres in Bhubaneswar and are in the process of setting up a Pharma Park and a Medical Device Park in Odisha. Hence, the setting up a NIPER in Odisha would be in the fitness of the overall scheme of development of phamaceutical sector in this region," Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik said in a letter to Union Minister for Chemicals and Fertilisers Ananth Kumar.
In order to increase the highly skilled human resource required for pharma sector, the state government would also like to have one such institute in Odisha, Patnaik said.
He assured Kumar to make available the requisite built up space for running of the temporary campus of NIPER on an immediate basis and land for construction of its permanent campus in Odisha.