law: National Institute of Pharmaceutical Education and Research Act, 1998
  7. The Functions of Institute 
  The functions of the Institute shall be-
  (i) to nurture and promote quality and
  
  excellence in pharmaceutical education and research;
  (ii) to concentrate on courses leading to
  
  master's degree, doctoral and postdoctoral courses and research in
  
  pharmaceutical education;
  (iii) to hold examinations and grant degrees;
  (iv) to confer honorary awards or other
  
  distinctions;
  (v) to cooperate with educational or other
  
  institutions having objects wholly or partly similar to those of the Institute
  
  by exchange of faculty members and scholars and generally in such manner as may
  
  be conducive to their common objective;
  (vi) to conduct courses for teachers,
  
  pharmaceutical technologists, community and hospital pharmacists and other
  
  professionals;
  (vii) to collect and maintain world literature
  
  on pharmaceutical and related sciences and technology so as to develop an
  
  information centre of its own kind for other institutions within the country
  
  and in the developing world;
  (viii) to create a central faculty of
  
  pharmaceutical instrumentation and analysis for use by the researchers within
  
  and outside the Institute;
  (ix) to have a centre to experiment and
  
  innovate and to train teachers and other workers in the art or science of
  
  pharmaceutical teaching;
  (x) to develop a world level centre for
  
  creation of new knowledge and transmission of existing information in
  
  pharmaceutical areas, with focus on national, educational, professional and
  
  industrial commitments;
  (xi) to develop a multi-disciplinary approach
  
  in carrying out research and training of pharmaceutical manpower so that the
  
  larger interests of the profession, academia and pharmaceutical industry are
  
  better served and a pharmaceutical work culture is evolved which is in tune
  
  with the changing world trends and patterns of pharmaceutical education and
  
  research;
  (xii) to organize national or international
  
  symposia, seminars and conferences in selected areas of pharmaceutical
  
  education, from time to time;
  (xiii) to arrange courses catering to the
  
  special needs of the developing countries;
  (xiv) to act as a nucleus for interaction
  
  between academic and industry by encouraging exchange of scientist and other
  
  technical staff between the Institute and the industry and by undertaking
  
  sponsored and funded research as well as consultancy projects by the Institute;
  
  and
  (xv) to pay due attention to studies on the
  
  distribution and usage of drugs by the rural masses, taking into account the
  
  socio-economic spectrum in the country.