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NIPER inaugurates ITEC program, presents courses 'Pharmaceutical GMP Audits and Self-Inspections'
Babushahi Bureau
Chandigarh, August 19, 2024: The National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar on Monday inaugurated the ITEC Program of GoI and present course titled Pharmaceutical GMP Audits and Self-Inspections during the inaugural function was held at Convention Centre.
The course was presented by Banoth Rajkumar Naik , Scientist NIPER, and the course coordinator of this ITEC Course.During his presentation of the introduction to the ITEC course, mentioned about the importance of documentation and data integrity for compliance to the regulatory guidelines.
He mentioned that the data should be original, accurate, complete, consistent, attributable, legible, contemporaneous, enduring and available.
National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), S.A.S. Nagar is conducting ITEC (Indian Technical and Economic Cooperation) programs in the field of Pharmaceuticals under India’s foreign policy of Ministry of External Affairs, GOI.
The ITEC program was instituted by a decision of the Indian Cabinet on 15 September 1964 as a bilateral programme of assistance of the Government of IndiaThe development partnership Administration (DPA) –III was set up in the Ministry of External Affairs in January 2012.
The ITEC Programme is fully funded by the Government of India. Under this programme 161 countries have economic cooperation which includes Asia, Africa, East Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean as well as Pacific and Small Island countries. They are invited to share in the Indian developmental experience.
NIPER is conducting such training programmes since last 24 years. NIPER SAS Nagar is organizing a two week intensive training programme on “Pharmaceutical GMP Audits and Self-Inspections” from 19th to 30th August 2023.
25 participants from 16 countries—Ethiopia, Maldives, Tanzania, Sri Lanka, Mauritius, Turkmenistan, Belarus, Zimbabwe, Nepal, Tajikistan, Niger, Sierra Leone, Armenia, Malawi, Botswana, and Ghana—will attend the course. Participants include professionals from drug regulatory bodies, pharmacists, and quality control sectors are attending this course. Resource persons from the pharmaceutical industry, academia and regulatory agencies will be delivering lectures in this programme.