Industrial Tour - IBS GURGAON

IBS GURGAON

INDUSTRIAL TOUR

IDPL

(Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Ltd.)

IBS Gurgaon conducted an industrial tour for its students to expand their knowledge bank and get an insight of the actual working world. It gave the students an opportunity to get an insight of the company, know its past experience and the future strategies that they’re planning on.

Indian Drugs and Pharmaceuticals Limited (IDPL) is a public sector pharmaceutical, bulk drug manufacturing and drug discovery company owned by the Indian government, headquartered in New Delhi, and located in Hyderabad, Gurgaon and Rishikesh. The company is involved in patent development alongside, National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research to provide affordable drugs, and has recently released three over the counter drugs.

IDPL played a major role in the strategic National Health Programmes like Family Welfare Programme & Population Control (Mala-D & Mala-N) anti-malaria’s (Chloroquine) and prevention of dehydration (ORS) by providing quality medicines. During the country’s calamity of outbreak of Plague in 1994, IDPL was the only company which played the sheet anchor role in supplying Tetracycline for the entire Nation.

The event started with Mr. Sanjay Kumar, General Manager, IDPL, addressing the students, sharing the background of the company, its products, the sick phase that it went into and how it’s now recovering from that phase.
After Mr. Kumar addressed the crowd, he along with the participants and the faculty members, Prof. Bhawna Chhabra, started with the tour of IDPL from the Production Department.

The students got a chance to see live manufacturing and packaging of the medicines, how the inventory was being managed, raw material management, various quality control measures, how efficiently was the man power being used etc.

Production department had this huge hall with all the technical machines, the students were explained about the working of various machines and were also shown how they work. Post which they were taken to the final plant where the raw material were being converted into the final product.

The students got to see how the tablets were made, what raw materials were used, what machines were used for what purposes and the last stage, the packing stage wherein they learnt how those small little pieces of chemicals, good for your health, get into those shiny plastic and aluminium packaging.

After the tour ended, Prof. Renu Verma, Academics Co-ordinator, presented the token of appreciation for giving IBS students the opportunity to visit IDPL plant and learn about the IDPL was formally declared sick by The Board for Industrial & Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) But to its rescue, soon enough the government stepped in and planned for its revival putting in capital injections starting 2005 and since then IDPL is slowly and gradually trying to match the pace and come up from the sick phase. The government believed that the revival of the company would help provide essential medicines and generic drugs to central and state government organizations at a reasonable prices.

It launched three new OTC medicines in 2009 and working on new products since then. Recently it received 200 crores of investment from the government for its revival.

We hope the best for IDPL.