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The Cabinet Committee on Economic Affairs (CCEA) today approved the setting up of a world class Drug Research Institute at Lucknow under X Five Year Plan at an estimated cost of Rs.190 crore.
The setting up of the Institute will enable utilisation of scientific expertise and core facilities developed over five decades. It will help in meeting challenges and emerging needs of new drug discovery research and development. It will result in development of new products/process in drugs and pharmaceuticals facilitating generation of world class technologies and foreign exchange earnings.
The Insitute will have acceptable working environment and improved safety to personnel. It will provide qualified and specialised trained scientific manpower to pharma industry, and provide quality service in quantity for regulatory pharmacology/ toxicology, pharmacokinetics and metabolic studies to pharma industry.
The project would be completed in four years from the date of release of funds.
The existing building structure is a palace, not purposely built for a research laboratory, and in spite of high maintenance expenditure, it could not come up to the acceptable level of a modern drug research laboratory for obvious reasons. Despite several initiatives and approaches introduced from time to time to rejuvenate the existing structure it has not been possible to conform to Good Laboratory Practices (GLP) standards. Moreover, the building has shown signs of deterioration and has been declared unsafe by the duly constituted expert committee. It has also been declared as an ancient monument and has to be handed over to the Government of Uttar Pradesh.
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