IEC
Chairman:
Prof. B.L Mehra
Vice Chairman:
Prof. Ashwani Kumar Upadhyaya
Professor, Dept Of Dravya guna
Basic Medical Scientist
Dr. Damanpreet, IHBT Palampur
Member Secretary:
Dr. Sonia Sharma
Reader, Deptt. of Samhita ( Basic Principles) Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Post. Graduate Ayurvedic College
Paprola Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh)
Members:
- Prof. Anjna Mishra
Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Post. Graduate Ayurvedic College Paprola Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) - Dr. Seema Shukla
Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Post. Graduate Ayurvedic College Paprola Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) - Prof. Minakshi
Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Post. Graduate Ayurvedic College Paprola Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh) - Prof. Umesh Shukla Rajiv Gandhi Govt. Post. Graduate Ayurvedic College Paprola Distt. Kangra (Himachal Pradesh)
- Scientific member- Miss Shalini Thakur
- Social Scientist- Dr. Karm Chand Joshi
- Legal Expert- Mr. Ajay Awasthi
- Lay person- Mr. Atul Mehta
The role of the Institutional Ethical Committee at the Institution level is to protect the dignity, rights, and well-being of the potential research participants. The purpose of the committee is to ensure that the objective of any research is directed towards the increase of professional knowledge about human conditions in relation to its social and natural environment. The research should be conducted in such a way that no person and persons become a mere means for the betterment of others, and the research is subjected to a regimen of evaluations at all stages of the research proposals.
The IEC of RGGPGAC, Paprola is constituted by the Govt. of H.P. and is committed to keeping a check on any human and unscientific research proposals and to strictly implementing guidelines issued by the AYUSH Department, G.O.I., or ICMR where necessary. No one can be subjected to torture or inhuman degrading treatment and no person can be used as a research participant without his consent. He should be made well aware of the proposed study and results thereof, before registering him as a research participant and he is free to withdraw himself at any time from the research. The IEC can inspect any ongoing research at any time.