Dr Raghuram Rao Akkinepally
The 85th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG), held on October 18, 2024, at the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research, Mohali, has raised more questions than it answered. What should have been a routine administrative exercise now appears symptomatic of a deeper malaise—indifference, reactive governance, procedural ambiguity, and potential conflicts of interest….
When the 84th Meeting of the Board of Governors of NIPER S.A.S. Nagar was held on June 7, 2024, one of the agenda items—84.2—was about showcasing the Institute’s achievements and building stronger collaborations with national and international academia and industry. On paper, it sounded promising. In reality, it exposed a deeper malaise. A Board member…
Institutions do not collapse overnight. They erode slowly—through neglect, indifference, procedural abuse, and a culture of unaccountability. What is unfolding at NIPER Mohali is not an aberration but a pattern. The records of its own Board of Governors meetings provide irrefutable evidence. The 83rd meeting of the Board of Governors, held on December 15, 2023,…
The 82nd meeting of the Board of Governors of NIPER Mohali, held on October 6, 2023, offered a telling snapshot of the Institute’s current state of governance. Of the full Board, only seven members were present, including the Chairman and Mr. Mohanbir Singh Sidhu, a representative of the Secretary, Technical Education, Government of Punjab. The…
The 81st meeting of the Board of Governors, held on June 20, 2023, was less a forum of governance and more a case study in administrative drift. With the re-entry of a former Registrar—suspended during my tenure—as Secretary to the Board, confusion once again became the institutional norm. The minutes themselves read like a chronicle…
Under the chairmanship of Dr. Girish Sahni, former Director General of CSIR, the 79th meeting of the Board of Governors of NIPER Mohali was held on March 22, 2023. The minutes of that meeting, if read carefully, do not merely raise questions—they expose a troubling pattern of administrative confusion, questionable priorities, and a casual disregard…
The 79th meeting of the Board of Governors (BoG) of NIPER Mohali was held on 22 March 2023 under the chairmanship of Dr. Girish Sahni, former Director General, CSIR. Subsequent to amendments to the NIPER Act, representatives of different authorities were permitted to attend Board meetings. This amendment was carried out after I, as Director…
The decision of the National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research (NIPER), Mohali, to drag its long-running dispute with Dr. Neeraj Kumar to the Supreme Court has raised troubling questions—not just about administrative judgment, but about the reckless use of public money to pursue what increasingly appears to be a personal vendetta. NIPER Mohali has…
The legacy of misgovernance at NIPER Mohali did not merely persist—it was institutionalised. When the newly constituted Board of Governors held its first meeting on December 9, 2022, it already carried the baggage of past failures. Two members from the previous Board found their way into the new one, which was to remain in place…
When I assumed charge as the Director of NIPER Mohali, I was taken aback by the manner in which the minutes of the Board of Governors (BoG) meetings were recorded and, more importantly, how critical decisions were actually taken and later altered. A Table Agenda Item No. 67.T1 titled “Charge of Director, NIPER S.A.S. Nagar…
